Does Clinical Experience in Foreign Country Help?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Exactly as stated in the title.</p>

<p>I am an elegible U.S resident with a green card, and considering obtaining the citizenship next year.</p>

<p>I heard that in applying medical schools, clinical volunteer work plays a very important role.</p>

<p>My mother has been a nurse in my home country for 30 years, and she has a wonderful relationships with physians and surgeons she worked with, and they are very much willing to let me work (of course not as a doctor) in their practices.</p>

<p>My question is that doing so will be benefitial in applying medical schools in U.S? (or as effective as doing the same in U.S)</p>

<p>I am thinking of doing that during summer vacations I will get in college.</p>

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<p>Yes, it will be helpful. No, it will not replace clinical exposure to medicine in the US. No, it will not be as effective in showing you understand how medical care is delivered in the US. Do both.</p>

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<p>Agree with curm, do both or do US based if not both.</p>

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lol. Absolutely. By a factor of maybe 100. You can get into med school without any international medical exposure. No US clinical exposure? You are a “dead man walking”.</p>