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Can I become a doctor with an undergraduate degree in basic medicine and a graduate degree in clinical medicine?

Can I become a doctor with an undergraduate degree in basic medicine and a graduate degree in clinical medicine?

No. This is dictated by policy.

The first point is that basic medical specialties are not allowed to take the specialty of clinical medicine. Previously, it was possible to take an inter-professional examination, so much so that there was even a case of nursing taking a clinical medicine examination. In order to improve access to medicine, as well as to be able to standardize the teaching program of clinical medicine.

The second point is that it is not possible to obtain a license to practice medicine.

With an undergraduate degree in basic medical science is not able to get a license to practice medicine, without a license to practice medicine, there is no way to practice medicine. Even if you are able to take an academic postgraduate course in clinical medicine, you will not be able to get a license to practice medicine with an academic postgraduate degree in clinical medicine.

The third point is that the licensed medical practitioner certificate is just necessary for entry into the practice of medicine, so if you want to engage in the practice of clinical medicine in the future, you have to take the licensed medical practitioner certificate.

The fourth point is that a large proportion of graduate students in basic medical sciences go to research institutes or university teaching after graduation.

To summarize, basic medicine majors are not recommended for graduate study in clinical medicine. Because according to the existing policy changes, undergraduate basic medical science is not able to get a licensed physician's certificate, and will not be able to achieve the purpose of practicing medicine.

The question itself is a bug when the undergraduate program is in basic medicine and the graduate program is in clinical medicine.

Almost all medical schools nowadays that recruit graduate students in clinical medicine do not allow students whose undergraduate degree is in basic medicine to report. Don't ask me why this is, it's the rule. If your undergraduate degree is not in clinical medicine and you want to study clinical medicine at the graduate level, the only way to get a clinical doctorate is to enroll in a "4+4" type of program at Shanghai Jiaotong University or Peking Union Medical College. But I can also responsibly tell you, Shanghai Jiao Tong University "4 + 4" doctor of medicine enrollment, to have the recommended qualifications for exemption of outstanding fresh domestic double first-class or the original 985 and 211 comprehensive university of science and technology and literature and history undergraduate graduates, the Peking Union Medical College to be a non-medical students, and the world's top 50 universities students. Peking Union Medical College wants non-medical students, and students from the top 50 universities in the world. If you are an undergraduate majoring in basic medicine, you can report on your own against the number.


The vast majority of graduate school majors are possible across the professional, such as you learn a mechanical class major, graduate school when applying for a law major, this is no problem. But the clinical medical specialty graduate school enrollment conditions are more demanding, clinical medicine graduate school, only enrolled in clinical medicine undergraduates, other professional undergraduates do not accept. This is because clinical medicine majors in the undergraduate stage, learning and mastering a large number of related knowledge and skills, these skills will not be re-taught once in graduate school, and graduate school, these knowledge and skills need to be familiar with the mastery. The possibility of self-learning these skills is minimal, and clinical matters can only be resolved clinically in the hospital. This is why undergraduate students who want to study clinical medicine, undergraduate failed to be admitted to the clinical medicine program, can only repeat the re-examination.


Taking a step back, even if a basic medical undergraduate went to graduate school, he or she would not be able to go on to become a doctor because they could not go on to become licensed to practice medicine. It is also a rule that the license to practice medicine requires that the undergraduate or specialist degree be in clinical medicine. If you can't get a license to practice medicine, what kind of doctor are you? So, if you want to be a clinician, it's better to go straight to the clinical medicine program, even if the school is of a poorer grade, he undergraduate clinical medicine major can still be a doctor after graduation.

Impossible! The specificity of clinical medicine dictates that it is a unique specialty, and origin determines future practice. Being a doctor doesn't just happen, and even those who graduate in clinical medicine are not 100% ready to become a doctor.

Because state statutes require the following steps to become a physician. First, you must be qualified with the appropriate training. This is the most initial requirement, the specialty studied is clinical medicine or related professional direction (such as imaging, dental and other clinical professional direction). Second, you must pass the licensing examination. At present, our medical practitioner qualification examination is divided into two categories of licensed medical practitioner qualification and assistant medical practitioner qualification, the required certification qualifications, educational requirements, etc. are slightly different, but only through the corresponding examination to obtain the qualification to practice. Third, the practitioner registration. After obtaining the license only represents a step forward on the road to become a doctor, generally need to be qualified to carry out medical activities in the effective registration of the unit, only with the qualification to practice medicine. Fourth, standardized training. At present, the state requires every doctor to pass the standardized training program, a comprehensive assessment of qualified to have the qualification to practice medicine.

On the one hand, we can see that it is not easy to become a doctor, and on the other hand, we can see that there are strict regulations on all aspects of becoming a doctor. It is basically impossible for students whose undergraduate degree is in basic medicine to become master's degree holders in clinical medicine; students without a degree in clinical medicine are not qualified to take the licensing examination for medical practitioners, and it is also impossible for them to become a doctor. Therefore, if you aspire to become a doctor, you must pay attention to the choice of specialty in the college entrance examination.

The question itself is a big bug, here can clearly tell the questioner, except for the early years when the requirements are not so strict may appear such a situation, now the basic medical undergraduate can not apply for clinical medicine graduate students, whether full-time or on-the-job, can not! Not only basic medical undergraduate can not, even dental undergraduate can not apply for clinical medicine graduate school. And vice versa, clinical medicine undergraduate can not apply for dental medicine graduate students. Of course, it is possible for a clinical medical undergraduate to apply for basic medical graduate school, and it does not affect the application for licensed physicians. In other words, basic medical undergraduate indeed some "loss", but the relevant provisions are so, no one can do ......

Let's get back to the book, and just default to the scenario that the questioner said really came up. So, undergraduate study of basic medicine, postgraduate study of clinical medicine, can apply for licensed physicians, become a doctor? The Practitioner Law provides: "with higher education medical specialties (clinical, oral, traditional Chinese medicine, public health, excluding basic medicine) undergraduate degree or above, under the guidance of a licensed physician, in medical, preventive, health care institutions in the probationary period of one year," you can apply for licensed medical practitioners. However, in practice, clinical medicine can only apply for clinical practitioners, stomatology can only apply for dental practitioners, traditional Chinese medicine, public health category.

Master's and doctoral degrees in clinical medicine must be counted as a "bachelor's degree or higher". According to the relevant provisions of the Medical Practitioners Law, those who have a postgraduate degree in clinical medicine must be able to apply for clinical practitioners! It's not like some people think that you have to have a bachelor's degree in clinical medicine. But the problem is, now basic medical undergraduate can not apply for clinical medicine graduate school! Even if the requirements are relaxed and you can apply for academic postgraduate study, it's still no use, you still can't be considered "clinical medicine". But clinical graduate school and must undergraduate read clinical class professional ...... In other words, want to test clinical practitioners, undergraduate must read clinical class professional! In other words, if you want to be a clinical practitioner, you must have a clinical undergraduate degree. Therefore, although this path is theoretically feasible, in practice, it is not operable. Unless you are a graduate student in clinical medicine from a basic medicine undergraduate program in the early years when the requirements were not so strict. In any case, as long as you have a serious full-time graduate degree in clinical medicine, regardless of whether your undergraduate study is a basic medical specialty or public health specialty, even if your undergraduate study is liberal arts, engineering, theoretically, you can apply for clinical practitioners. After all, the law is not expressly provided that is not illegal, is not it?

Can a bachelor's degree in basic medical science be applied for a licensed physician?

According to the relevant provisions of the Medical Practitioner Law, the basic medical bachelor's degree is not qualified to apply for a licensed physician, whether it is clinical, oral, traditional Chinese medicine or public health practitioners, are not! If you are a high school graduate directly into the medical school to read the basic medical class undergraduate, neither can take the examination of licensed physicians, but also can not take the examination of clinical, dental, traditional Chinese medicine, public health graduate students, this life basically with the doctor's profession to say bye-bye ......

On the other hand, some medical students who have been promoted to bachelor's degree or college degree are sometimes allowed to apply for the examination of licensed medical practitioners. Of course, the road may be slightly more complicated, but at least it is possible to apply for the examination. If you studied clinical medicine or dentistry in junior college or secondary school, and then went on to get a bachelor's degree, even if your undergraduate degree is in basic medicine, you can still apply for the licensed physician's examination. But the premise is that you must start from the assistant practitioner examination.

The Law on Practicing Physicians stipulates that medical secondary and tertiary education holders may apply for the qualification of practicing physician assistant after completing a one-year probationary period in an official medical institution and passing the examination. After obtaining the qualification of practicing assistant, those who have worked for two years with a college degree and five years with a secondary school degree can apply for the examination of practicing physician. It is necessary to say here that after the expiration of the prescribed period of time, the assistant practitioner can not be directly converted to a licensed practitioner, but must re-take the examination for licensed practitioners, and can only obtain the license to practice after passing the examination. In other words, to achieve the prescribed years of practice assistant physician is actually equivalent to the "medical bachelor's degree" only, and is not a "shortcut" to obtain the qualification of a licensed physician, want to obtain the qualification of a licensed physician, you still have to take the examination! But no matter what, at least you can take the test, just spend a few more years.

In summary, basic medical undergraduates are now simply not qualified to apply for clinical medicine, stomatology and other graduate students. However, the Law on Practicing Physicians clearly stipulates that it is necessary to have a bachelor's degree or above in medicine (clinical, oral, traditional Chinese medicine, public health, excluding basic medicine) to apply for a practicing physician! Therefore, basic medical undergraduates are simply not able to apply for a licensed physician, to become a doctor. Unless you studied clinical medicine at the secondary school or junior college level, and later studied basic medicine at the undergraduate level. If you studied a basic medical undergraduate program directly after high school, you will basically say bye-bye to the profession of doctor in this life ......




Can not be, undergraduate is basic medicine, can only take the clinical medicine academic graduate! Clinical medicine academic graduate students are what majors can be enrolled, such as the study of Chinese can also be, research medical literature, medical writing, etc., but just can not be a clinician! Undergraduate look at the specialty, masters look at the school, doctoral look at the tutor, undergraduate must be careful to choose a specialty!

Can. Let me tell you the story of a real doctor. He is a barefoot doctor origin, as a child had polio, one leg has obvious disability, walking a little limp, because of the love of the profession of saving lives, but also the family is too poor, graduated from junior high school in the village of barefoot doctor where apprenticeship. Through self-study and master help, he began to become a local famous doctor in his forties, the local people's Sun Simiao, Bianqi, Zhang Zhongjing.

The Chinese people need doctors in big hospitals who have the most advanced medical technology to bring them back to life when they are facing terminal illnesses, but they also need community doctors who are always by their side. The protagonist of my story, surnamed Jia, is nicknamed "Jia Three Days": when a patient finds him, he is usually effective on the same day and cured in three days. 2000, when I was teaching at a high school in the town where Jia Three Days was living, his nickname had already spread throughout the town. The name had already spread to all three townships and five miles. My family of four went to his clinic for treatment when they were sick, and we gradually became familiar with him.

His clinic was accurately described as a small hospital. Because of his excellent medical skills, the convenience of seeing a doctor and saving money, his clinic was at first in his home, but then the patients were more and more, and it was set up in the original brigade headquarters of their village, with ten or so tiled houses and about one acre of land. He was a doctor, three pharmacists for medicine, and four nurses for injections and infusions. The clinic sat at seven o'clock in the morning and finished at about five o'clock in the afternoon. There is an hour and a half break at noon. There was no need to register, but a number needed to be issued. Patients come, a nurse will use a poker-sized piece of paper to write the order of coming up, standing in line with three or four, to see a go a complementary one. "Jia three days" does not have any advanced equipment: a table, a chair, a stethoscope, a sphygmomanometer, a hand pillow, a pen, a stack of blank prescription paper, and then it is to look and smell. Prescribed medication, to the patient, he took out of the clinic, just take the medicine, turn left to the next prescription to get the medicine and pay the fee to go. If you need an injection and infusion, the patient turns right to the next "ward" and gives the prescription to the nurse. When the injection and infusion are finished, the patient leaves. Usually seven o'clock in the morning before he came, the patients have filled the courtyard, I asked the nurse, every day to receive patients in about 100 people. This is equivalent to the amount of patients treated by 50 or 60 doctors in five or six health centers in the local townships.

It is said that because of his fame and good medical ethics, the leaders of the provincial hospital heard about it and wanted to hire him to work there, but he refused. He said, first, he did not have a diploma, where he could not solve the problem of his own title. Second, the rural areas need him more. Thirdly, his income is considerable here.

He died around 2010 and the owner of the bus company there was saddened. "When he died, far fewer people came to this village by public transportation, and we saw a significant drop in revenue!"

Nowadays, rural and urban areas are in great need of doctors like "Jia Sanjian", but those with formal undergraduate degrees, master's degrees and doctorates would rather stay in large hospitals than serve the people in a practical way. These general practitioners basically have less than a specialized degree, but most of them are successful.

Of course you can be a doctor.

It's the people who don't know what they're talking about that ask the funny questions. It is not possible to take a postgraduate course in a clinical specialty with an undergraduate degree in basic medicine. On the contrary, it is possible for a clinical undergraduate to apply for graduate school in basic medicine, and then, after graduation, go to work as a doctor in a hospital with the degree and diploma of the clinical specialty of the undergraduate. I often advise undergraduates in clinical specialties to become doctors by applying for postgraduate studies in basic medical sciences because the examination for postgraduate studies in clinical specialties is very tough and it is difficult to be admitted to the examination.

The main question here is how did you get into a graduate program in clinical medicine. Normally, you can only enroll in a graduate program in clinical medicine if you have studied clinical. However, if you did already study clinical postgraduate, then you just need to pass the licensing exam normally to do clinical work.

Why do you ask such strange questions?

Basic medicine and clinical medicine are neighboring majors, undergraduate disciplines are almost the same, just focus on different. Undergraduate basic medicine can be enrolled in clinical postgraduate, after graduation, naturally can become a clinician, and undergraduate specialty has no relationship! And and undergraduate clinical-graduate clinical people with the same qualifications and treatment of doctors.

The qualifications recognized by the work unit are the highest qualifications at the time of joining the workplace, i.e., the first qualification is a bachelor's degree, and the salary is adjusted according to the bachelor's degree level. If a person obtains a postgraduate qualification during the working period, it is the second qualification, and the salary will no longer be adjusted in accordance with the postgraduate qualification, but the title promotion and qualification level will be treated in accordance with the postgraduate qualification. If an undergraduate graduate joins the workforce and then acquires a full-time graduate degree, and then rejoins the workforce after graduation, he or she will be treated in accordance with his or her graduate degree and specialization.

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