Post PLAB Blues, My Experince

[yasirmhm]

Post Plab Blues

My Experience

Why most of the doctors who pass PLAB can not get work in the UK?

To make a long story short, every overseas doctor passes the PLAB will be eligible for registration with the General Medical Council. Note the word, ELIGIBLE, this means that you are not yet registered to work there.

So how to get registration?

You have to find work to get temporary registration. You have to find this work as soon as possible, but the validity of the test is three years, so if you passed the test in 2007, you still can apply for job until 2010, but the problem is that you can not stay beyond your initial six months visitor visa.

You can extend you visa on basis of clinical attachment. Clinical attachment is an unpaid obserevership in one of the hospitals, but the costs are huge.
You have to pay 350 to 500 pounds for extension for about 6 weeks only, and you have to consider the costs of your living.

This is why many of us do not consider the extension due to its expenses and small chance of getting work.

After April 2006, the British authorities decided that there is already enough number of doctors in training inside the UK, so they don’t need any more. They abolished the type of visa which allows us to work for years there and were called (Permit Free Training).

Now, we have to apply for a visa type called (work Permit). Basically, you can not get work and get this visa unless there is no UK or European citizen applied for the job you are short listed to (an impossibility).

But the GMC will introduce new legislations in 2007 which will grant the doctors who pass the PLAB full registration even if they did not get work. This will be a good step to decrease our suffering.

This is in short the story after PLAB test.

Most of my fellow doctors who didn’t get work within six months, they either apply for asylum or leave the UK. I believe it is a very hard choice to take, but many feel that the new legislations were unfair and affected many doctors not only those who came after April 2006, but also those who are already in the UK

So, if you decide to take the test, think carefully, and think especially about the costs and benefits of your decision.

I wish you all the best.

[Ghayath]

thanks again doctor .. very useful info ..

but i wonder what is the use of the up coming legislations to grant the full registration .. would they give visa or extend it on that account ?

[om_baghdad22]

hi
ty doc 4 ur information,really its unfair desicion but inshalla 2007 legislations will make benefit 2 u & ur effort not gone with the wind .
ty again.

[yasirmhm]

Dear friends,

Thanks a lot for posting back. About the new legislations, nobody knows how they will benefit us. Because even if I was given full registration, I have to go to the UK again to look for work. There is no visa category that allow you to go there to look for job. I have to apply as a visitor, and the chances of being refused such entry is big, because you have to have a strong reason to be granted UK visa.

Besides, going there means huge expenses that I can not afford.

But, let us just wait and see, and i am sure that no hard work will go in vain.

Thanks again.