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Originally posted by HelloKitty22
In the U.S., you take an exam when you graduate med school and you become licensed. With that license, you can practice medicine, in any area. You are not required to do an internship or a residency, although almost everyone does because it is a prerequisite to get admitting privleges to a hospital or to take your boards.
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This is not true. After you graduate from med school you are given a temporary license. You use this temporary license to complete an internship afterwhich you sit for STEP III of the boards and if pass you are considered a license physician.