Eligibility requirements: Pakistan

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

• Anaesthesia

Medicine

• Cardiology
• Clinical Genetics
 • Clinical Neurophysiology
• Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
• Dermatology
• Endocrinology & Diabetes Mellitus
• Gastroenterology
• General (Internal) Medicine
• Genito-Urinary Medicine
• Geriatric Medicine
• Infectious Diseases
• Medical Oncology
• Nephrology Neurology
• Palliative Medicine
• Respiratory Medicine
• Rheumatology
• Tropical Medicine

Paediatrics

• Paediatric Cardiology
• Paediatrics

Psychiatry

• Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

• Psychiatry
• Psychiatry of Learning Disability
• Psychiatry of Old Age

Radiology

• Radiation Oncology
• Radiology

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

• Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Emergency Medicine

• Emergency Medicine
Surgery

• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• General Surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmic Surgery
• Oral & Maxillo-Facial Surgery
• Otolaryngology
• Paediatric Surgery
• Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
• Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
• Urology