Internship (medicine) - Iraq

Iraq

In Iraq medical intern (or Stagiaire which is more commonly used among medical students in Iraq) is the sixth year of medical college in which each student must complete the specialities of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery and pediatrics. Each speciality is given in particular courses of 3 months, after completion of internship they enter a general examination concerning all their medical information and tasks they have learned if passed then the student will be given qualification degree (i.e. MBChB) According to the above definition of internship, interns have a degree but they are not fully licensed to practice medicine unsupervised. This is exactly the state of graduates, they work in hospitals undersupervision of senior doctors, as residents. This period of residency usually take one calender year, we in Iraq call it "rotation" and we call the medical graduate "rotator". Stager is sixth year of medical college as mentioned, these are students not graduates.

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