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What is the order of Medical Degrees?

After A levels you join Medical university to get your medical degree.
In some countries like india, Malasiya, Srilanka and Banagladesh you get awarded M.B.B.S ( Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ) after 5 years of studying in medical school undergraduate program. Than after that you study for 2 years of postgraduate in order to get M.D ( Doctor of Medicine) degree.

However, when you complete 6 year undergraduate medical degree in countries like Russia, Belarus, Kirghistan and Ukraine you are awarded M.D ( Doctor of Medicine).

So in some countries undergraduate medical degree is M.D while in other countries in postgraduate medical degree is M.D.

My question for the countries who give M.D as undergraduate degree, what degree are you awarded after you study postgraduate in medicine?

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Perhaps they don't have a distinct postgraduate 'degree' - just a series of experience levels and competencies that need to be shown?

In the UK undergrad gives a whole variety of differently named degrees - MBBS, BM BCh, BMBS, and some others - and then further training isn't really organised into 'degrees' per se. There are key points you have to pass - FACD2 after FY years, membership exams (varying number of exams taken at varying times), and then CCT later on. They aren't really the same as the 'MD' you describe though. They're not equivalent.