学生应在适当的研究委员会批准的一个或多个医院或机构中从事适当的临床或研究背景至少两年，并在此期间完成该学位的大部分工作。学生可以发表论文，其中主要体现了在上述背景下应聘者的工作成果，或者他们可以提交大量发表的论文或体现医学方面某些方面的个人观察或研究结果的论文。<br > <br>医学博士奖的最后阶段是通过口语考试，要求学生向审查委员会捍卫论文。
Students should have been engaged for at least two years in an appropriate clinical or research setting in one or more hospitals or institutions approved by the appropriate Board of Studies and have completed the majority of the work for the degree during that employment. Students may present a thesis embodying the results of work done mainly while the candidate is employed in the above mentioned setting or they may submit a substantial body of published work or works embodying the results of personal observations or research in some aspect of Medicine. <br><br>The final stage of MD award is a viva voce examination, in which students are required to defend the thesis to a Board of Examiners.