Good luck with the specialty choosing!
Here we had six years of studies and then 13 months of internship - which was... "half-work" I'd say
We had a title of a doctor, but we had limited rights to practice medicine. So we couldn't for example write prescriptions. And during the internship we were paid (about 500$ monthly). There was 10 weeks of internal medicine, 6 weeks of ob-gyn, 2 weeks of anesthesiology, etc. And what we did differed greatly on different wards On internal med I did everything (but ofc someone else had to stamp the prescriptions 
), on ob-gyn I was only a slave for writing discharge papers (never seen a patient or a birth during this time, I had to stay in a slave-room and write ) and on pediatrics I was a speech-to-text machine, haha Because old doctors there couldn't type so fast. So the internship was both good and bad, but at least we had some money from this bad parts where we didn't get any useful experience. And only after the internship and the final exam we get full rights to practice medicine, choose residency, etc...
Here we had six years of studies and then 13 months of internship - which was... "half-work" I'd say
We had a title of a doctor, but we had limited rights to practice medicine. So we couldn't for example write prescriptions. And during the internship we were paid (about 500$ monthly). There was 10 weeks of internal medicine, 6 weeks of ob-gyn, 2 weeks of anesthesiology, etc. And what we did differed greatly on different wards On internal med I did everything (but ofc someone else had to stamp the prescriptions ), on ob-gyn I was only a slave for writing discharge papers (never seen a patient or a birth during this time, I had to stay in a slave-room and write ) and on pediatrics I was a speech-to-text machine, haha Because old doctors there couldn't type so fast. So the internship was both good and bad, but at least we had some money from this bad parts where we didn't get any useful experience. And only after the internship and the final exam we get full rights to practice medicine, choose residency, etc... 
Well then, this is awkward, your internship salary is actually bigger than a resident's in my country lol (not really, i'm sad about it). We do what you described in the modules during uni, some teach you, some just use you for stuff, others would have you rather go home and not stand in the way. It depends on the doctor.
Yep, but there's no big difference between the internship salary and the resident's one - about 50$. And when my american friend asked me how much I earn, he asked "per week?" "No, per month!" and he was shocked 
"No, per month!" and he was shocked Well here it starts at about 300$ and by the end of it if you're really lucky you can have maybe 600$ so... And the older doctors usually earn around 500-1000, it depends on specialty.
I know, my American friend had the same reaction ):
I know, my American friend had the same reaction ):