How Do I Become a Physician Assistant?

A doctor's certificate is a certificate obtained by passing an industry admissions examination. The doctor's qualification examination is a test to evaluate whether applicants for doctor's qualifications have the professional knowledge and skills necessary to engage in physician work. The ability to apply for the expertise of a physician can be evaluated.

Physician certificate

A doctor's certificate is a certificate obtained by passing an industry admissions examination. The doctor's qualification examination is a test to evaluate whether applicants for doctor's qualifications have the professional knowledge and skills necessary to engage in physician work. The ability to apply for the expertise of a physician can be evaluated.

Chinese name

Physician certificate

Category

Qualification certificate

Function

Assess ability to apply for physician expertise

Those who meet one of the following conditions can take the qualification examination for practicing doctors:

(1) Those who have a bachelor's degree or higher in medicine from a college or university, and under the guidance of a physician, have a probationary period of one year in medical, preventive, and health care institutions;

(2) After obtaining the qualification certificate of assistant physician, he has a bachelor's degree in medical science in a college and has worked in a medical, preventive, or health care institution for two years;

The registration time and method of the practicing physician examination are as follows:

Online registration time: about 2-3 months each year. The specific time will be announced by the National Examination Center ^[2]

The exam is divided into two levels and four categories, namely, two levels of licensed physicians and licensed assistant physicians; each level is divided into four categories of clinical, traditional Chinese medicine, oral, and public health. Traditional Chinese medicine includes traditional Chinese medicine, ethnic medicine, and integration of traditional Chinese and western medicine. Among them, ethnic medicine includes Mongolian medicine, Tibetan medicine, and Uyghur medicine. Other ethnic medicine doctors are not open for the time being. So far, there are 24 types of medical qualification examinations in China.

The practice skills test uses a multi-station test. The practice area has a practice skills test base. Several test stations are set up according to the content of the test. Candidates pass the test stations to receive practical skills tests in turn. Each candidate must take the test at the test station at the same test base.

The comprehensive written medical examination for the medical qualification examination of doctors will be held in mid-September. The specific time is subject to the announcement time of the Medical Qualification Examination Committee of the Ministry of Health. The examination time for practicing doctors is 2 days, divided into 4 units; the examination time for practicing assistant doctors is 1 day, divided into 2 units, each unit is two and a half hours.

The comprehensive medical written examinations are in the form of multiple choice questions. There are five types of questions: A1, A2, A3, A4, and B1. The assistant physician appropriately reduces or does not use the A3 type question. The total number of questions for the physician qualification examination is about 600, and the total number of questions for the assistant physician qualification examination is 300.

The difference and connection between "Physician's Qualification Certificate" and "Physician's Practice Certificate": "Physician's Qualification Certificate" (also known as "Practitioner's Qualification Certificate") is a national health examination after passing the national unified qualification examination Issued by the Ministry of Health, it is a recognition of medical technology, which proves that the certificate holder has the skills and ability to engage in medical activities independently, and the certificate is permanently valid. (Certificate in brown cover)

The "Physician's Practice Certificate" is issued by the local health bureau, which allows you to practice medicine in a certain hospital, and specifies the scope of your practice, which is an administrative recognition. If you make a mistake, you can revoke your license. If you change hospitals to practice medicine, you must also renew your license. (Green Cover Certificate)

To practice medicine, doctors must first take the qualification examination for licensed physicians and obtain a physician qualification certificate. Then bring the doctor's qualification certificate to the health bureau where your working hospital is located to register for a doctor's license, and you must get both of them to be eligible to practice medicine.