What’s after the interviews

Dr. Altayyeb Yousef

Good News

•Weeks or on the spot!

Got many offers

•Well done

•How to choose?

Choice process•Early... Deadline!

•Equal

•base your choice on:

•research/ area of interest

•social issue

•expense

•safety

•load

•Weather

Bad News!

Bad News•You did all the previously mentioned tips but still you didn’t get an offer!

•Not End of the world

•Please Do not:

•Quit trying

•Leave your speciality

•pursuit an easier speciality to go abroad !!

Bad news!

•Always have Plan B on stand by mode!

Other routes to specialize/train•Europe:

•UK*

•Ireland

•France

•Germany

•Australia*

•KSA

•Kuwait

UK Routes•you need to be registered in GMC:

•UK grads

•European medical schools Grads (PLAB/MRCP)

•Non European School grads (MRCP)

•Have an eligible visa status.

UK system

•Deaneries

•BMT

•HMT

Ireland

•Registeration in IMC

•BPS

•SpR scheme

France•Language part:

•12 months, then a ? language assessment

•Get into program... where??? French MOH

•Program part:

•1st 3 semesters of rotations then

•you get into your speciality

•Be ware ... rules change yesarly!

Australia•Eligibility to register in AMC:

•Via AMCQ

•Via competent pathway

•Apply to the programs (Network) directly:

•Programs are supervised via RACPS

•Standardized

Australia

•Problem is:

MOH

Saudi Boards

•Requirements to be accepted:

•1. To be accpted by Saudi Commission for health specialisation السعودية الهيئة

الطبية للتخصصاتhttp://arabic.scfhs.org.sa/ =(KIMS)

•2. Pass the Saudi License Exam

•3. Passing the interview of the hospital you will be applying to.

Saudi Boards•There will be interview by SCFHS

to be accepted in the program.

•Hospitals differ from each other and Interviews start from January, some March & April. There is deadline for each hospital.

•applying for hospital differ from SCFHS.

Saudi Boards• There are residency & fellow programs

• SLE (Saudi Licening Exam). held twice/year - October & March

• Contains MCQs in general Medicine Peds Surg Gyne Derm. Easy to pass.

• some need subspeciality exam + SLE, & questions will be on speciality i.e. emergency, ortho

• There are past papers you can find in Jarir Bookstore.

• Applying details on website & many centers for setting exam [khobar, jedaah, Holy mekka]

Specialities differ•Some programs are hospital based (almost all the time in your hospital) i.e. Medicine & other central (rotating between hospitals) program i.e Emergency & Ortho...

•Specialities differ from center to centers:

•NGH: has good surgical/Emergency Not Medicine

Kuwaiti Board•There are training programs in

Medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, Radiology, Anesthesiology and pediatrics

•4 years programs*

•Rotation between MKH and Amiri. but for Anesthesiology almost all Kuwaiti hospitals.

Thanx to

•Dr. Ali Almajid

•Dr. Ali Maqdesi

•Dr. Mohammad Alfarhan

•Dr. Ahmad Sarab

•Dr. Mohammad Almutawa

•Dr. Ya’acoob Awadh