<p>I was reading a post earlier and they made it seem like unless you get into a top medical school, you'll never work or even find a residency.</p>
<p>What is this nonsense? I don't know a single person in my family that has went to a top medical school and they had no trouble getting into a residency. It might not have been a top residency, but they all became doctors to help people, not have some distinguished career. One of them is a member of Doctors Without Borders.</p>
<p>You don't need to have to work at John Hopkins to help people. It isn't like the people in Baltimore are more sick than anywhere else in the world.</p>
<p>The only numbers I can really quote would be match rates, which essentially is “being employed the year after medical school.” If you’re at an american MD school, your chances of being an unemployed physician are very, very, very low (~5%). If you go to an american DO, the chances increase a bit (~10-15%). If you leave the US for medical training, they jump up a lot (~55%).</p>
<p>You also don’t even need to be a physician to help people.</p>
<p>I was reading a post earlier and they made it seem like unless you get into a top medical school, you’ll never work or even find a residency.</p>
<p>What? lol Where did your read that?<br>
On HighSchoolLunchTableGossip.com?</p>
<p>I want you to apply a logic test to that. There are about 140 US MD schools in the US. If only those who attended the top ranked SOMs find residencies/work, wouldn’t you think that the others ones would have closed a long time ago? </p>
<p>Also…have you ever looked at the diplomas of the MD that treat your family in various specialties? I doubt that most/all went to top ranked med schools</p>
<p>May be the MD from Caribbean has hard time getting Residency and getting a job in hospital after finishing residency. </p>
<p>Any facts how our Caribbean MD doing in USA, or DO is better then them.</p>
<p>Is it easy to get into Caribbean schools or they becoming competitive too…</p>
<p>Easy to get into caribbean but not always easy to graduate. Many of them will expel students or hold them back or not let them participate in the match to protect their stats. I don’t know if there are stats about post-residency but in terms of getting into residency there is plenty of data here: [NRMP:</a> Data and Reports](<a href=“http://www.nrmp.org/data/index.html]NRMP:”>http://www.nrmp.org/data/index.html)</p>
<p>Unequivocally your job prospects are US MD > US DO >>>> Foreign MD</p>
<p>I don’t think the OP’s question was concerning those who are going the island route. </p>
<p>His words suggest a concern that unless you get into a “top medical school,” you won’t get residencies/work. That is simply ridiculous. </p>
<p>The mid-tier and unranked med schools would have long shut down if those grads couldn’t get matched. Besides, if you go to many med schools’ websites, they’ll list where their grads matched. One of my son’s acceptances is to an unranked SOM. It lists the “res matches” for the last couple of classes. Many of those students were matched into very competitive residencies.</p>