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Just a month after helping Wales lift the Six Nations Championship Jamie Roberts is celebrating again, having passed his final medical school exams.

The 26-year-old Wales, Cardiff Blues and Lions centre has, since the new year, been balancing 2013 Six Nations commitments with his studies.

In fact he sat his final paper just days after beating England at the Millennium Stadium.

And it seems the hard work has paid off.

Jamie tweeted this afternoon: “Very happy (ecstatic) to say I've passed my medical finals...only took me 8 years but worth every second of hard graft!”

He also used the hashtag #Dr.Roberts.

He later thanked Cardiff University, the Welsh Rugby Union and Cardiff Blues, before telling his followers he was off for a glass of champagne.

Jamie began a full-time three-year course at medical school in 2005 and went on to complete a BSc in sport and exercise science at Cardiff Metropolitan (then Uwic), in which he gained first class honours.

He then returned to Cardiff University to complete his fourth and fifth year of medical school, which, because of his rugby commitments, have taken four years to complete.

Speaking after his final exam last month Jamie said: “It’s been a long journey.

“It feels weird, a strange feeling to think that these last exams bring to an end something that I’ve done for eight years.

“The majority of people told me I was crazy trying to balance this year’s Six Nations with my studies.

“That sense of achievement on the pitch, and hopefully off it as well, will, I’m sure, be a moment in my life which I will look back on and think wow, I really dug in and reaped the rewards.”

Speaking exclusively to Wales Online, Jamie revealed how during the Six Nations he would arrive at the Wales team hotel at 5am to revise for three hours before having breakfast with the rest of squad ahead of training.

“If we were travelling to say Scotland or France on the Thursday, I would do some work in the evening but on match day and the day before I would switch off, I would flick a switch and it was all rugby for 36 hours,” he said.

Roberts will quit Cardiff Blues at the end of the season and become the latest big name to leave Wales for the riches of France, having signed for Racing Metro in suburban Paris.

And he has no plans to practise medicine just yet.

“I’m not going to try and work as a doctor until I retire,” he said.

“Once I hopefully get the degree, it’s there, in my back pocket in a sense.

“But I don’t want to become a doctor until I can fully commit to it.”