<p>hey
just wanted to know the acceptance rate of IMG's in america and canada
and how many tests you have to do in order to get into a residency or internship program
thanks
sorry i meant international medical graduates!!!!</p>
<p>The 7,977 international medical school graduates (non-U.S. citizen IMGs) who participated this year matched at a rate of 31.4 percent in 1998. </p>
<p>In order to make it that far, you have to take the USMLE, which in itself has a low pass rate among IMGs.</p>
<p>Actually your wrong about that in the UAE I know most of the people in the UAE who applied as an IMG in the US and they All got in the 99-90 percentile so im not worried about the USMLE I’m more worried about the competition and do you know the percentage of IMG’s that get accepted??
and the process of applying
I’m actually a canadian citizen so would it be easier for me then lets say someone from India?</p>
<p>What other people get on the step 1 doesn’t assure you that you will, nor just because you know a few people who did it (how many people would you really know at this point? I don’t think I even knew what the step 1 was in high school). If you go into a legitimate medical school in the UAE you will definitely be able to pass the Step 1 EVENTUALLY. The problem is that most foreign schools that are actually in place to provide physicians for their country. The USA is odd in the fact that the step 1 and medical school in general is much heavier on the basic sciences than most countries. Because of this, it can take a lot of prep work in order to </p>
<p>Also the 90-99 score you are referring to is not a percentile. The Step 1 is graded on a scale of 300 and also on a separate scale of 100. It would make sense for the 100 digit one to be a percentile, but this is not the case for some weird reason. Nonetheless, a 99 still implies a good score.</p>
<p>Anywho, in my first post I quoted the percent of IMGs that get accepted as being about 30% in the late 90s. I know there is more recent data out there but I have a feeling the match rate is still going to be 30-40%. Canadians have some preference over other IMGs at some programs. I’m sure that those who went to Canadian medical schools probably have a pretty high match rate in fact. Honestly though, I don’t know that much about the match statistics on a country by country basis. I wouldn’t worry about the application process yet, your medical school will help you with that.</p>
<p>The pass rate on the USMLE for IMG’s is 60%.</p>
<p>Of the ones who do pass and apply to US residencies, the match rate is around 50% (meaning 1/2 of the applicants do not match anywhere).</p>
<p>Just about everyone who are successful in getting into a US residency end up in primary care specialties. </p>
<p>Those are the 3 realities for IMG’s. There’s data freely available to support each of those points. There’s no need to resort to anecdotes.</p>
<p>The more competitive specialties simply have no need to take IMG’s. My PBL preceptor is the head of anaesthiology at my school. He says they receive hundreds of applications from IMGs a year and they simply throw the applications in the trash. It’s not out of disrespect to IMG’s but with so many good US graduates there’s no reason to have to worry about things like bedside manner or communication skills (which tend to not be as emphasized in foreign med schools). Those are his words.</p>
<p>I agree with Norcalguy in general. Having said that, I know of several extremely competitive residencies that do take IMGs. We would ( and still do) interview 10-15% of our applicants and rank about 5-7% to get our class. We were and still are interested in physicians who are native to their country of their medical school and are highly ranked, score well on the USMLE, have done research in our field, have published, and intend to return to the academic world in their own country.</p>
<p>At the same time though, a substantial number of residency programs absolutely do not consider IMGs at all.</p>
<p>@mmmcdowe I dont know what you have against IMGs but you need to ease off and not answer questions if you do not have the sufficient knowledge</p>