All high school students during the senior year take a qualifying entrance exam into universities. This exam determines whether you can become a lawyer, doctor, or professional; it’s your entire life at the age of eighteen in one exam. Medicine is the most competitive field and requires the highest scores. ~1000 students matriculate each year into medical school, which is a 6 year program. In the first two years, history, writing, basic sciences, etc provide fundamental learning skills; in the following three years, medical lectures offer the foundation for medical knowledge; and finally in the last year, rotations in different specialties mark the beginning of clinical skills. Once medical school is over, each physician is required to do an intern year and then a community service year to complete their training to become a general practitioner. At this point, the physician can choose to specialize or not specialize in internal medicine, peds, surgery, etc.
US Medical Training:
4 year degree, 4 years of medical school, 3-5 years of residency in a specialty – although there are some programs that train medical students right out of high school.
South African Training (British System)
6 years of medical school, 1 year of internship, 1 year of community service = General Practitioner , and then optional training for specialties.
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