STUDYING MEDICINE

Entry-level medical education programs are tertiary-level courses undertaken at a medical school. Depending on jurisdiction and university, these may be either undergraduate-entry (most of Europe, India, China) or graduate-entry programs (mainly United States).

Generally, initial training is taken at medical school. Traditionally initial medical education is divided between preclinical and clinical studies. The former consists of the basic sciences such as anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, pathology. The latter consists of teaching in the various areas of clinical medicine such as internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, and surgery. Increasingly, however, medical programs are using systems-based curricula in which learning is integrated, and several institutions do this.

Following completion of entry-level training, newly graduated doctors are often required to undertake a period of supervised practice before full registration is granted; this is most often of one year duration and may be referred to as "internship" or "provisional registration" or "residency".

Further training in a particular field of medicine may be undertaken. In some jurisdictions this is commenced immediately following completion of entry-level training, whilst other jurisdictions require junior doctors to undertake generalist (unstreamed) training for a number of years before commencing specialization.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE

The practice of medicine combines both science as the evidence base and art in the application of this medical knowledge in combination with intuition and clinical judgment to determine the treatment plan for each patient.

Central to medicine is the patient-physician relationship established when a person with a health concern seeks a physician's help; the 'medical encounter'. Other health professionals similarly establish a relationship with a patient and may perform various interventions, e.g. nurses, radiographers and therapists.

As part of the medical encounter, the healthcare provider needs to:

develop a relationship with the patient
gather data (medical history, systems enquiry, and physical examination, combined with laboratory or imaging studies (investigations))
analyze and synthesize that data (assessment and/or differential diagnoses), and then:
develop a treatment plan (further testing, therapy, watchful observation, referral and follow-up)
treat the patient accordingly
assess the progress of treatment and alter the plan as necessary (management).
The medical encounter is documented in a medical record, which is a legal document in many jurisdictions

WHY STUDYING ABROAD?

Medicine is costly training, and since it has a practical and clinical approach, therefore it requires equipped apparatus, clinics. Majority of the countries where there are a lack of such facilities. Also day to day development of medicine is beyond the reach of developing nations. Therefore there are demands of foreign qualified doctors in these countries in Latin America, Africa, Middle East and Asia. Medical colleges and their teaching capacity is limited in these countries. Therefore there are a great demand for foreign medical courses. Studying Medicine abroad is acquiring updated knowledge, gaining clinical exposure using modern lab and off course a chance of working abroad. Medicine courses are 

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