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Get to live in Egypt for the rest of your life in order to practice medicine because even if you pass the USMLEs, you’re still looking at between a 60-70% chance of not getting into a residency in the US.</p>
<p>Con: If you don’t pass the USMLE, you have no college degree and work in whatever you can find as a high school graduate.</p>
<p>con: you won’t be able to work in the US.
con: you’ll have spent 6 years getting a degree that is essentially useless in the US.</p>
<p>But hey, go ahead, go to Egypt. Less competition for the rest of us.</p>
<p>i think this thread is done…this guy is obviously thick headed and was just looking for someone to agree with his preconceived notions</p>
<p>we’ve done all we can</p>
<p>i would like to know about the caribbean med programs, specifically the american university of the caribbean. I’m not considering a med program but I know so many parents who are rubbing it other people’s that their kid “got into med school already and is saving years”. </p>
<p>The kids who are going are not that stellar and were considering community colleges if they stayed in the states. </p>
<p>So is American university good? Do students from there actually become doctors in the US.</p>
<p>I don’t keep track of individual schools…but the main message about any foreign medical school should be exactly what this thread has stated: it’s a risky decision. While there are certainly people every year who get into a residency program from these schools, the odds are not good. Further, the options for what’s available to you are even worse. If you wish to do something other than FP, IM or peds, the chances of getting a spot go from bad to worse. </p>
<p>Yes, everyone - especially when they’re 18 thinks - it’ll never happen to them, that they’ll be the ones who manage to cheat the system, catch lightening in a bottle and make it into that neurosurgery or dermatology program, but it’s simply not something that any reasonable person would advise any one to do.</p>
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<p>You need a college degree to attend SGU, Ross, and AUC. Unlike the schools the OP has mentioned, these school are geared toward sending people back to the US. With SGU being the top of the three.</p>
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<p>International medical graduates are at a huge disadvantage when applying for competitive fields.</p>
<p>Interested in the lifestyle friendly ROAD specialties? (radiology, ophtho, anesthesia, derm) Forget about it as an IMG.</p>
<p>Interested in the surgical subspecialties? (plastics, ortho, neuro, ENT, uro) Forget about it as an IMG.</p>
<p>Even if you were interested in a primary care field (pure internal med, family med, or peds), attending medical school in the US gives you more options not to mention the flexibility to change your mind which most medical students inevitably do.</p>
<p>Not worth it just to save a couple of bucks. Apply for scholarships, borrow from low-interest sources, whatever, I’d find someway to make it work financially if I could attend an American medical school over a foreign one.</p>
<p>would it help that i am black and am an american citizen?</p>
<p>Being an American citizen would harm you in applying from overseas.</p>
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<p>Would it help with what?</p>
<p>Getting into a competitive residency as an IMG? Highly unlikely.</p>
<p>Getting into a foreign medical school? I have no idea.</p>
<p>Getting into a US medical school? It might, I’d still concentrate on preparing a strong application though.</p>
<p>i was wondering if it would help get me into a competitive residency as an IMG</p>
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<p>No.</p>
<p>If you even have an inkling towards any of the competitive fields, you need to be at an American medical school and you need to excel.</p>
<p>“You need a college degree to attend SGU, Ross, and AUC. Unlike the schools the OP has mentioned, these school are geared toward sending people back to the US. With SGU being the top of the three.”</p>
<p>The kid who is going to AUC has just finished his sophomore year at a community college. So I’m not sure if he needed a college degree to get into AUC. As for the other kids, they are high school grads but they are not going to SGU, Ross, of AUC.</p>
<p>Btw, the average stats for admission into AUC are 2.9 gpa and 23 MCAT…so it seems pretty easy to get into. The reason students from here don’t get residencies or pass the USMLEs are because they probably weren’t that good to begin with.</p>
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<p>someone once said that the criteria for admissions into a Caribbean school is that you have a pulse and i completely agree… a 23 MCAT average is lower than the average of everyone who takes the MCAT…it’s like getting MUCH less than a 1020/1600 or 1520/2400 on the SAT!</p>
<p>You don’t want to be a US foreign medical school grad…it’s the hard road. We automatically screen them out (US grads of foreign medical schools) and as a group consider them to be non-competitive. We do take international grads of foreign medical schools - usually candidates who have spent time in the UK in addition to repeating their residency in the US.</p>
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<p>I don’t understand how you still insist this is plausible. This is 3 pages of thread with EVERYONE in agreement that it’s a bad, bad idea. And many of these posts come from people who are IN the medical field, they aren’t lying, they aren’t clueless.</p>
<p>If getting a cheap, quick education and coming back to the US to do medicine was that easy, don’t you think others would be doing it? Hell, I’d love to get my MD for little $$, little work, little time. But that’s not how it works. You’re going to have to play the game like the rest of us.</p>
<p>We would take the best kid Nigeria had to offer and throw your application in the trash. I would guarantee you that our program wouldn’t even read your application.</p>
<p>Can anyone give me any insight into International American University (IAU) College of Medicine? The more insight the better. Let’s hear it please!</p>
<p>Rodney, tell us more about your daughter’s situation.</p>