Medical Career Pathway from High School to Consultant Level, Middle East and Abroad

Introduction

"Choosing medicine as a career is a lifelong decision that would require a lifelong journey of undergraduate medical education and post-graduate specialty training.

Different people have different reasons to make such decisions. Passion, money, prestige, family wishes or a mix of them are examples.

However, before making your decision and for proper future planning, important but basic facts about a medical career should be well known.

This lecture will provide you with the necessary knowledge about components and duration of a medical career, details of medical schools curricula, different methods of teaching used, requirements and components of postgraduate specialty training, and the main differences between medical systems worldwide