DOCTORS – GRADUATION
Then, in the latter three years, come the clinical subjects of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, and the various sub-branches such as psychiatry, paediatrics and dermatology.
In the past, students did not come in contact with patients until the fourth year of the course. But most medical schools have changed this by introducing students to patients very early in the preclinical years.
On graduation, the student receives the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. This follows the English tradition.
However, the Australian MB, BS, is equivalent in standard to the American or European MD.
Following graduation, a new doctor cannot be registered until he has completed one year as a resident medical officer at an approved hospital.
After this time, the young doctor may elect to go directly into general practice. And this he may do immediately.
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