Residency.

As an international student, would someone please advice on how I can get a medical residency position in UK?

Are you a UK/EU citizen? If not, getting an appropriate visa might be the biggest hurdle.

No I'm not. Really? Why would that be a problem?

Actually at this point what is confusing me is what is the difference between a provisional registration and a full registration?

No I'm not. Really? Why would that be a problem?

Actually at this point what is confusing me is what is the difference between a provisional registration and a full registration?

http://www.turbervilles.co.uk/blog/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-resident-labour-market-test/ (this states doctors are excluded, but that only applies to UK grads)

The resident labour market test means you can only be offered a job if there are no ("suitable" ) EEA applicants. (exceptions are consultant radiologists, psychiatrists and middle grade paeds). Essentially this means you cannot get a training post if the fill rate for the specialty is 100%, which it is for everything except GP, histopath and perhaps psychiatry. Even then the job won't be in London, but it'll probably be in semi-rural Wales.

Provisional registration is what is given to doctors in the UK in their first year out of medical school. They are only allowed to work and prescribe in hospital and have to complete certain objectives before being allowed full registration. As a new graduate from overseas, you may or may not have to complete a provisional registration year (F1) depending on what you've already done.

We don't really have "residency" in the same way in the UK - or at least, not by that name. After graduating, all junior doctors complete two "foundation years" (the first one with provisional registration, as above) which contain rotations through various different specialties. There is some scope for choosing jobs you prefer, but it's not hugely flexible. After that, they apply for specialty training, which takes anything from 3 years (for GP) to 8 years+ (mostly surgical specialties, but some medical subspecialties too), at the end of which they will be a consultant. The visa issue raised by AnonymousPenguin refers to the fact that we have a resident labour market test for all our training programmes, so if you are not a UK/EU citizen, particularly if you graduated outside the UK and therefore are not used to "the system," it is very hard to get a training post here. The visa situation has become more complicated in recent years, but unfortunately I don't know anything about it as it's not applicable for me.

So if I got it correctly, this means that it might be possible for me as an international student to get into the first two year foundation programme but then it would be difficult to get a speciality position unless it was in the field of radiology/psychiatry/ paediatrics?
Or does it mean that it would be difficult for me to get into the foundation programme in the first place?
Also, I was wondering If hypothetically speaking I finished the first two years of foundation training and and I didin't get lucky with the RLMT, what would happen next?

Are you a UK/EU citizen? If not, getting an appropriate visa might be the biggest hurdle.