UK Post CCST path to Surgical Residency

[amerkarim]

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted a bit of advice regarding a Post CCST move to the USA.

I am a UK citizen and am just about to get my CCST in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery here in the UK, having completed 6 years of SPR training, and am registered on the specialist medical register as an Orthopaedic Consultant. However, I am not planning to take a consultant job here in the UK, I just cant tolerate the weather and the UK anymore and so would like to try greener pastures. As I am fully qualified and a consultant, do I still have to do the USMLE and redo residency training. My qualifications are listed below, will they be recognised in the USA?

MBBS - Guys & St Thomas' Hospital
MRCSGLAS - Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow
MRCSENG - Royal College of Surgeons of England
MD(Res) - Imperial College London
DIC(Orth Eng) - Imperial College London
FRCS(Tr & Orth) - Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow
CCST - Trauma & Orthopaedics

I have tried writing to a few universities and hospitals but have had rather poor responses from the staffing depts.

Thanks in advance

AK

[James]

You are probably better off asking on Doctors.net rather than here. As far as I know you would have to do USMLE and start again from scratch (that is if you can get on a residency program for T&O). You are better off applying to Canada or NZ that do recognise British CCST or look in the back of the BMJ - they are always advertising in Gulf states and the far east.

[Scottish Chap]

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted a bit of advice regarding a Post CCST move to the USA.

I am a UK citizen and am just about to get my CCST in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery here in the UK, having completed 6 years of SPR training, and am registered on the specialist medical register as an Orthopaedic Consultant. However, I am not planning to take a consultant job here in the UK, I just cant tolerate the weather and the UK anymore and so would like to try greener pastures. As I am fully qualified and a consultant, do I still have to do the USMLE and redo residency training. My qualifications are listed below, will they be recognised in the USA?

MBBS - Guys & St Thomas' Hospital
MRCSGLAS - Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow
MRCSENG - Royal College of Surgeons of England
MD(Res) - Imperial College London
DIC(Orth Eng) - Imperial College London
FRCS(Tr & Orth) - Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow
CCST - Trauma & Orthopaedics

I have tried writing to a few universities and hospitals but have had rather poor responses from the staffing depts.

Thanks in advance

AK

I'm a resident working in New York. I'm originally from the U.K.

In the old days, foreign-trained physicians could be 'grandfathered in', but the medicolegal issues here see to it that you pretty much need to complete the USMLEs and re-train. Your credentials are ridiculous, and you'd be an asset here but it's hard to get past the red tape.

I met a couple of British medics who were able to get out of one year of a U.S. residency if they had MRCS or MRCP, but it's rare. Sorry. If you want to work in the U.S., you pretty much need to do what they ask.

SC