How an english person would become a doctor in the USA?

-Hi I've just finished my GCSE's and I am thinking of studying Medicine at university. I was also thinking about living in America, so I would like to know if it is possible to study Medicine here in the UK and then travel to america and work over there. If it is, what additional studying would be required in the US? How long would the whole route take? Would it be harder to find a job in the US as a british applicant? Are there any disadvantages to working in the US as to working in the UK?



Thanksdont go to usa big mistake man. the docters get paid less. as amerca has been hit more with ecnomical crisis than uk.
That is such BS that doctors get paid less in the US. And you don't have do private practices with co-sharers, but you can make more that way. Most work in the hospitals first and THEN buy their own practices once they are at consultant level.



Let me put it in perspective for you:

A doctor in say, London, could be barely scraping by to afford a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom house with a small garden and no garage.

A doctor in most parts of the US can easily afford a 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom house, with a personal cinema and bar in the basement, and 2 giant gardens and 3 garages.



How do I know? Because I live back and forth between the countries and I have doctors in my family who also have lived in both.



That aside, I would advise you to complete Medicine in the UK and work there until you reach Consultant or Registrar level in NHS hospitals. If you don't and just work a few years in the UK, you will have to start at the bottom of the hospital food chain in the US as a trainee doctor, which would be insulting to your experience. They would immediately hire you at the higher levels and pay you appropriately. And plus, the entrance exam for the US is so incredibly hard that my fiance says that the consultants he works with could barely or didn't pass it because it is ridiculously difficult and irrelevant to being a good doctor.



Doctors live like kings here. I'm serious. The only con is that you need to put in a certain percentage of your income for Malpractice insurance (about 20-30%), which isn't too bad considering you would be paying 40-50% in taxes in the UK with your income anyway.