Accreditation process for International Medical Graduates Accreditation process for International Medical Graduates An international medical graduate is a physician who leaves the country where he or she completed the undergraduate and sometimes postgraduate studies in medicine and moves to another country either for higher postgraduate studies or for employment purposes. Some countries like USA, UK and Canada have entry exams like USMLE or Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board test (PLAB) which allows the overseas graduates to gain local registration in order to practice medicine in these respective countries. Subsequently once they obtain the local registration most of these doctors are allowed to continue their employment and
International Cultivar Registration Authority International Cultivar Registration Authority An International Cultivation Registration Authority (ICRA) is an organization responsible for ensuring that the name of plant cultivars and cultivar groups are defined and not duplicated. The ICRA system was established more 50 years ago, and operates under the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP), which in turn works with the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. Its chief aim is to prevent duplicated uses of epithets for cultivars and cultivar groups within a defined denomination class (usually a genus), and to ensure that names are in accord with the latest