Quality Education, Global Recognition

The tough competition to gain admission in a medical college in India force medical aspirants to go abroad. What are the pros and cons of studying and practicing medicine abroad?

- Shivani Bhatt

Studying medicine opens up career options all over the world, though every country has varying criteria to be satisfied before they allow international medical graduates to pursue the profession on its soil.

The prime reasons for pursuing medicine abroad is the unavailability of seats in one’s country due to high competition and the cost of study. Students compare tuition fee in their home country, facilities and exposure they would have access to vis-à-vis a foreign country. For Dr. Pankaj Sharma, Anesthetic and Critical Care registrar at Queen’s and King George Hospital London (NHS), studying at Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia, it was a combination of all the above reasons. His yearnings for a cross-cultural experience while getting quality education abroad weighed heavily against the limited scope of learning offered by medical colleges in India.

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