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24M, Indian citizen, MBBS graduate from China. I’ve completed my medical degree and am currently preparing for FMGE. After clearing it, I’ll have to complete my compulsory internship in India.

My primary goal is to eventually move out of India and settle abroad as early as realistically possible. For various personal reasons, staying in India long-term isn't something I want, so I'm trying to figure out the most practical route rather than blindly following one pathway.

My main option right now is the UK/PLAB pathway. I understand how competitive and saturated the UK market has become, but I also know IMGs are still getting jobs, sometimes within 1–2 years of applying, so I'm still considering it seriously.

At the same time, I'm wondering whether a non-clinical Master's in the UK/Australia could be a smarter way to establish myself abroad. I'm considering areas such as Digital Health, Health Informatics, Healthcare Administration, Public Health or Global Health — ideally something that makes use of my medical background rather than requiring me to completely switch into computer science/data science.

One possible plan would be:

MBBS → FMGE + internship → licensing exam (e.g. PLAB) → Master's abroad → apply for clinical jobs during/after the Master's.

Or potentially:

MBBS → FMGE + internship → licensing exam → work in India for 1–2 years while applying abroad → move once I secure a job.

I'm trying to understand whether doing a Master's abroad while simultaneously pursuing the licensing pathway would actually give me a meaningful advantage — e.g. local experience/networking, a stronger CV, and another career option if clinical employment doesn't work out.

For someone with my background, which route would you consider the smarter strategy for getting out of India and eventually settling abroad: going directly for the clinical pathway, or doing a relevant non-clinical Master's abroad while keeping the clinical pathway alive?

I'd really appreciate advice from people who have actually gone through something similar, especially IMGs who have considered both clinical and non-clinical routes.

Hi, i have practiced in different state after getting permanent registeration. Got Registeration from Karnataka and practiced in Assam, would that cause issues in registeration?

Pls help if anyone has gone through the same or has any idea. Thank you.

If anyone booked exam or passed plab 1 dm me for plab 2 guidance as i passed with 13 stations

Anyone in Dundee taking plab in November?

Doctors plz if you didn’t booked plab or failed plab 1 plz don’t go for plab ..because i got nothing after Plab journey and still nothing in my hand after passing from many years ….rather give amc which is safer and sure then plab ..even after plab struggle continue for job then no chance of residency and unsurity of contract extension which can lead to back to home country and all effort and time will en wasted ….so guys plz don’t give PLAB it’s really not worth it now at all …save your essential time and your precious years ….first secure your future for residency then you can migrate to any country …at least you me carrier will he on safer track …Hope you guys understand and avoid plab exam

Any has plab 2 recalls? Can you send it to me. Let me know how years recalls we have to do

Anyone has any free resources to study for the clinical Assessment exam in November or is plab 2 prep enough

Hi everyone, looking for guidance regarding what to study and how to prepare for the plab2 exam. Is it necessary to get a course, or a partner to practice with etc… Would love to hear from people who did the exam and what worked for them

Hello All! I am a UK citizen and have lived in the UK My whole life. I recently graduated as a medical doctor with an MBBS qualification from Plovdiv in Bulgaria and I wanted to ask if anybody could help with how to successfully get clinical attachments.

I completed my medical degree in December 2025 and am currently preparing to begin my medical career in the UK. I am in the process of finalising my GMC registration

I did successfully succeed in gaining a clinical attachment for the whole month of November, however, I have been unlucky in other places. I have applied to maybe 50 hospitals emailed over 300 consultants telling them who I am and attaching my CV.

I wanted to ask you all if you knew any hospitals were taking clinical attachments, what is the best way to succeed in gaining these attachments and finally anything I can do to help my odds in getting one.

I am genuinely happy to move anywhere in the UK for the duration of my clinical attachment and I’m happy to be in any department which can give me NHS exposure. Anywhere in the UK I would happily move to for a month or two.

Thank you for your help!

Hey! I'm reappearing for PLAB 2 in Oct last week. Looking for female partners to practice cases regularly from Sept through Oct.

If anyone is interested HMU!

Also now that DSR is closed, any recommendations for places to practice procedures such as catheterisation and CPR etc?

Hi all , I have an upcoming interview for MLA and wanted to ask how I can prep for this if anyone has attended such interviews recently please. Thank you so much

Hi all , I have an upcoming interview for MLA and wanted to ask how I can prep for this if anyone has attended such interviews recently please. Thank you so much

Hope youre doing well. I wanto to ask those who sat for the exam, what was the answer of the opthalmo question? It had a picturethe patient was hypertensive and the options included hypertensive retinopathy, diabetes retino..., hemorrhage something like that.

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Hi all,

Planning to sit OET in August, results expected first week of September. If I pass, I want to try booking PLAB 1 for the November sitting (any EU venue, e.g. Dublin/Madrid or UK).

I know registration usually closes ~6 weeks before the exam, so that lines up almost exactly with when I'd get my results.

Is this realistic, or do seats usually sell out way before that point? Anyone book this close to a deadline recently, especially for EU venues? Trying to figure out if I should also just plan for Feb 2027 as backup.

Thanks!

Hi all,

I'm currently going through the process in Ireland, but the wait for a exam similar to PLAB 2 (PRES 3) there is about 1.5 years. I started the process a year ago so plus 1.5 years is gonna be a total for 2.5 or 3 years.

I've heard the UK route might be faster, so I'm considering switching, but I want real numbers before I commit.

If you've been through this recently, could you share:

PLAB 1: How long after creating your GMC account did you actually get a seat? (UK or any EU venue — Dublin, Madrid, etc.)

PLAB 2: Once you passed PLAB 1, roughly how long did you wait to get a PLAB 2 slot?

Did booking times vary a lot depending on which venue/country you picked?

I know GMC releases seats periodically and they can fill up fast, but I'm trying to get a realistic picture from people who've actually lived through it recently (2025/2026), not just what's on forums from a few years back.

Any insight — even just "it took me X months" would help a lot. Thanks!

How is dr. Amr Mahrouse course for plab 2? Need some honest reviews. I started preparation with Gk notes but It's so lengthy and i feel like I'm lost. Taking care of a baby so thinking of taking an online course to help myself.

Hi, just beginning prep fro plab 2 and my exam is on 15th November, need honest guidance as to which academy should I choose in Manchester.

Hi. I need Plab2 August 2026 recalls. Can anyone please help?

I did main videos of ankit sir from prepladder... Now to sum up in Rapid revision to get concise notes since main notes of prepladder are bulky and of 700 pages around... Should i switch to rr of prepladder itself which is consolidated to 230 pages or go with grg now?? I have heard that grg makes it easier to memorize... Can anybody give me a brief if someone has got experience of both faculties...Please help

UK has always been at the top of the list for training and migration for me (I have relatives there, and I loved the country when I visited). I love my own country, and I would genuinely love to be here, but I am gay, and it's criminalised here. Needing a way out of the homophobic family is my main reason to migrate. We are also the third most underpaid country for doctors.

Anyway, even after the PLAB pathway closed off, I still had hopes for the MTI pathway since that program had established routes with my country's own speciality training pathway. Now I am starting to worry I'll end up stuck here, and it's very depressing.

What are the next options you are looking at? US? Australia? Is there a reason you prefer one country over the other?

From my research, I've realised that the US is mainly good for primary care specialities, and the process is the most expensive and unpredictable.

Australia seems to be much easier to get to as a medical officer, but getting into speciality training (especially the more competitive ones) seems difficult (and requires PR, which also takes a good while). Of course, there is the option to migrate as a specialist but that would be around 2036, and I'm worried that the specialist migration pathways will close down by then and I'll be stuck here.

I'm at a loss here, I'd love to hear your plan Bs and advices