Hello everyone I am Tanveer Hamid, a graduate of Khyber Medical College, Peshawar (Batch of 2019). I have recently done my Medical Council of Ireland registration and have been contacted by many friends asking about the process of getting registered. To avoid confusions and to make it simple for everyone out there here I am writing my experience and what you should do and expect.
It needs to be clarified in the start that we graduates of Pakistani Medical Schools are exempted from their entrance Exam (PRES) and we apply on the basis of certificate of Experience (COE) which is our housejob experience. That is why we are only eligible for registration in the GENERAL Division of medical council.
Since you can begin online application after your housejob, there are certain things that you can do during your housejob to decrease the time it takes for your full registration.
THINGS YOU NEED BEFORE YOU CAN BEGIN YOUR ONLINE MCI APPLICATION:
1. MBBS/BDS degree
2. Valid IELTS/OET Report form
(IELTS; Overall band of 7.0 and 6.5 in each category tested) (OET; Grade B or a minimum score of 350)
3. An EPIC account (Electronic Portfolio for International Credentials)
4. A House job experience Certificate from Pakistan Medical Commission
5. EPIC Verification of Degree and House Job experience certificate
THINGS YOU CAN DO DURING YOUR HOUSEJOB:
As soon as your final year result is announced, apply for your MBBS/BDS degree.
Select MCI Recognized HouseJob Rotations for your Internship.
Sit in IELTS/OET exam and get the required band form/grade or score.
Make an EPIC account.
Verify your Degree from EPIC.
When are you verifying your documents from EPIC account, select “Medical School Diploma” for degree verification and “Post-graduate Medical Credentials” for House Job Experience certificate. Check “Medical council of Ireland” as a purpose of verification and EPIC will send one copy of your verified document to the council automatically.
Link to EPIC website:
LIST OF RECOGNIZED HOUSE JOB ROTATIONS:
The Medical Council accepts internships undertaken in Pakistan as equivalent to an Irish internship if the internship commenced after 31st December 2008 and the rotations comply with the Council's standards for internships.
The rotation requirements are as follows
Standard 1: Rotations
Training and experience must comply with the Medical Council's policy on length of internship and approved rotations; that is, a minimum of a total of twelve months, which should normally be consecutive, of which at least three months must be spent in Medicine in general and at least three months in Surgery in general. As part of this twelve-month period, an intern may also be employed for not less than two months and not more than four months in the following specialties:
. Emergency Medicine
. General Practice
. Obstetrics and Gynaecology
. Paediatrics
. Psychiatry
. Anaesthesia (to include perioperative medicine)
. Radiology
Please note the following listing of specialties recognised by the Medical Council which can be undertaken as part of an internship:
RECOGNISED MEDICAL SPECIALTIES
Anaesthesia
Paediatrics
Surgery
. Anaesthesia
. Paediatric Cardiology
. Cardiothoracic Surgery
. Paediatrics
. General Surgery
. Neurosurgery
Medicine
Psychiatry
. Ophthalmic Surgery
. Cardiology
. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
. Oral & Maxillo-Facial Surgery
. Clinical Genetics
. Psychiatry
. Otolaryngology
. Clinical Neurophysiology
. Psychiatry of Learning Disability
. Paediatric Surgery
. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
. Psychiatry of Old Age
. Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
. Dermatology
. Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
. Endocrinology & Diabetes Mellitus
Radiology:
. Urology
. Gastroenterology
. Radiation Oncology
. General (Internal) Medicine
. Radiology
. Genito-Urinary Medicine
. Geriatric Medicine
. Infectious Diseases
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
. Medical Oncology
. Obstetrics & Gynaecology
. Nephrology
. Neurology
. Palliative Medicine
Emergency Medicine
. Respiratory Medicine
. Emergency Medicine
. Rheumatology
. Tropical Medicine
WHAT TO DO AFTER HOUSEJOB?
After completing your housejob apply for experience certificate from your concerned Hospital. Mention the names of rotations according to the list above, accepted by MCI and mention correct dates from start to end of each rotation.
Example:
Rotation From To
General Medicine. 1/1/2021 31/3/2021
Paediatrics 1/4/2021 30/6/2021
General Surgery 1/7/2021 30/9/2021
Ophthalmic Surgery 1/10/2021 31/12/2021
After getting your housejob certificate, apply online for House Job Experience certificate from Pakistan Medical Commission by clicking the link below.
Once you get your experience certificate, Verify it from EPIC. PMC charges fee for the verification process. EPIC will notify once they forward your Certificate for verification and will send a copy of your verified experience certificate to the Medical Council of Ireland.
ARE YOU READY TO SUBMIT ONLINE APPLICATION NOW?
Check the checklist below. If you have completed all of them than you are good to go for the next step.
1. Eligible IELTS/OET Report form ✅
2. Valid current Passport ✅
3. EPIC verified MBBS/BDS degree and PMC experience certificate ✅
If you have completed the above checklist, click the link below and make an account with Medical Council of Ireland.
Begin your application. Filling the form is easy but always make sure that we are eligible for Registration in General Division only. There is a page in the application form where they want you to tell them about the time you have spent after your graduation. Make sure you mention the time after your graduation date (written on MBBS degree) and beginning of house job e.g I told them I was having interviews for Post Graduation House job or Internship in that interval. Mention something like this. Write N/A when something is not applicable to you.
Another confusion people usual have while filling the online application is when the ask about the minimum Indemnity. This is not applicable until you get a job there and select the option saying. “I will not be engaged in practice of medicine directly after my registration but I hope to start soon after my registration.”
You can begin your application by clicking the link below.
Application fee: 410 Euros
Application fee is refundable incase your application is rejected.
Once you submit your online application, Medical council gives you a checklist of things that is required. Long story short, You need to send them NOTARISED copies of your Passport and IELTS/OET report form, alongside the checklist via courier. ( USE DHL or any other fast delivery services). They also want to you to send a GOOD Standing Certificate form the Pakistan Medical Commission. Pakistan Medical Comission sends the good standing certificate directly to the council and notifies you via email.
Click the link below for Good standing certificate.
AFTER SUBMISSION OF ONLINE APPLICATION:
Make sure;
1. Notarised copy of Passport and IELTS/OET report form sent via courier to Medical council of Ireland. ✅
Address: Medical Council Kingram House,
Kingram Place,
Dublin 2, D02 XY88
2. Good standing Certificate sent via Pakistan Medical Commission ✅
HOW LONG BEFORE ASSESSMENT OF YOUR DOCUMENTS COMMENCE?
Due to current covid situation and enormous backlog its taking longer than usual for assessment of documents. The council notifies you that the assessment can take from approximately 24 to 26 weeks but it can take longer than that. Keep checking your portal regularly. Once your assessment is complete, your portal status will become “Eligible” once your documents are verified and accepted.
Before submission of your Final Registration fee, the council emails you a GENFORM which you need to download, fill and sign it in your own Hand writing. Its assessment can take approximately 6 weeks. Once its completed Registration fee is raised against your account and you are informed to pay it via Portal.
Registration fee: 560 Euros
I HOPE ALL YOUR QUERIES REGARDING MEDICAL COUNCIL OF IRELAND REGISTRATION ARE GONE BY NOW!!!!!
TAKE CARE AND REMEMBER ME IN YOUR PRAYERS :)
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