Hello everyone,
I am an International Student (from Europe), currently undergraduate at a CSD department and I’m going to receive my degree in a few months. I have no previous medical studies (or biology, chemistry etc.) but I had quite good grades (A, A- in the US scale) in those courses when I was at high-school. I think I’ve made some wrong career choices, because medicine always was my dream. However, I’m in my middle 20-s now, and I want to go to a good med-school, preferably in US. The fact is that I can’t afford spending 3-4 years studying something else, before I even consider applying to a medical school. What are my choices? (If I really have a choice)
I don’t think you have much of a chance to attend medical school in the U.S.
American medical schools accept very, very few international students. That’s because they’re meant to train primarily American doctors AND because they’re extremely expensive: many are over $60,000 PER YEAR with no financial aid for international students. In addition, some medical schools ask that their international students deposit the entire cost of their education in a special fund to prove they can really afford it.
But let’s say you have the money.
In order to meet the admissions criteria, you will need to take university-level courses in biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, etc., (your high school courses won’t count) and receive a very high score on the MCAT exam.
You can read more here
http://www.internationalstudent.com/study-medicine/
@katliamom Thanks for the info, I was expecting something like that… I will probably search for something in Europe
@TomSrOfBoston Oops, autocorrect messed it up. I meant CS Department (Computer Science)
If you want to study medicine, your best bet is to do that in your own home country. You will still have the option of taking the US foreign medical exams, and coming to the US for a medical residency or other advanced medical training. http://www.ecfmg.org/
Or if your own country doesn’t accept students who have a CS degree, look at Ireland’s Royal College of Surgeons.