US equivalent of my degree URGENTLY!!!!

Graduate School
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<p>Hi!</p>

<p>I am a student from Ukraine.
After getting DDS degree I’ve entered the residency. Residency for dentists is 2 years in Ukraine.
But I’ve joined combined program residency+MS program. It is a new “invention” for Ukraine. It is not similar to such US program. It consists of two parts:
First part is working as an internship doctor.
Second part is conducting research and writing a thesis subsequently. Just research, no classes, lectures, marks, courses. At the end of the second year a student must defend a thesis.
But unlike US Masters Programs, I don’t attend classes and lectures on my “MS” part. I don’t have marks (GPA). So everything that I do as an MS student – is making my research. And my main work is a work as an internship doctor, so I do this research after work.</p>

<p>That is why I don’t have intermediate transcripts of GPA.</p>

<p>At the end of this residency I will get<br>

  1. Certificate that I’ve finished the residency that me to work as a dentist in Ukraine.
  2. MS diploma (after I defend a thesis). But this is not diploma with academic transcripts, tittle of all subjects that I’ve attended and my GPA. (like my diploma when I’ve got DDS degree). There will be no GPA. Just a diploma where is written something “Mr. […] got Masters of Medicine”. </p>

<p>What should I wright to my applications to grad school? I am applying to biomedical sciences, not dentistry.
If I wright MS degree, grad school will ask me intermediate transcripts but I don’t have them). And if I get to grad school they will ask me my diploma and transcripts. What will I show them? Some schools even wright on their sites “diploma is not valid without transcripts”.
Will they accept MS diploma where is written just “Mr. […] received MS in medicine”?</p>

<p>I thought that this program sounds more like “residency+ part time research assistant” in US way.</p>

<p>So, maybe it is better to wright “residency/part time research assistant”??? As I said I am afraid that when I will be accepted to graduate school they will not accept my “strange” MS diploma.
Or should I just wright residency? But then I can’t wright about my research project (and it is rather interesting).
Or should I leave residency/MS?</p>

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<p>Leave Residency/MS. You can present the diploma and the university you end up attending will determine if you can get any credits toward a Ph.D. (which is what you are after, I presume) or not.</p>

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<p>I too think that you need to report “Residency/MS”.</p>

<p>You could say something like “Residency/Research-Only MS”.</p>

<p>Research-only degrees at the masters and PhD level aren’t uncommon outside of the US. Schools in North American that are accustomed to applicants from overseas will be familiar with the concept.</p>