<p>A friend of mine wants to go to medical school directly after completing her A'Levels, and she wants to know some good medical schools (anywhere in the world) with MBBS programs. I know NUS has a pretty strong medical school, but other than that I know very little, so some help would be appreciated!</p>
<p>AIIMS, JIPMER & AFMC would probably be the three best in India. (Not sure what their admissions are like if you're an international student though); I know AIIMS takes around 50 National students and maybe 5 Int'l students.</p>
<p>University of Auckland in New Zealand is supposed to be amazing for medicine. It actually depends on whether u need aid or not.</p>
<p>In India: AIIMS, JIPMER, CMC Vellore, AFMC (has physical restrictions + compulsory tenure, both of which may be a turn-off), possibly some schools like Bangalore Medical College (which might be crazy tough for non-Karnataka kids, though).</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your responses, do keep them coming! :)</p>
<p>The aid is an interesting issue. I always had the impression that medical school is so expensive that colleges don't usually provide aid for students studying medicine. So it would be nice if someone could name some medical colleges which do give aid. Also, I would appreciate it if you could tell me which medical colleges tend to be friendly towards international students as far as admission policies go.</p>
<p>"AFMC (has physical restrictions + compulsory tenure, both of which may be a turn-off)"- That's the Armed Forces Medical College right? Sounds a lot like the AFMC we have here in Bangladesh.</p>
<p>Most Indian ones are fairly inexpensive, although I think that getting in as an international student involves writing to the Indian Foreign Office or some such nonsense. (I found this out back when I was still considering med in India -- I'm a UK citizen, so things became very rapidly complicated. I gave up.) </p>
<p>And I don't know, Orhan -- personally, I'd pick the Indian universities (if the restrictions on UK citizens did not exist, hah). But that may be personal bias, since both my parents are graduates from Indian schools, and so I know their worth -- I guess one does go for what one is already familiar with!</p>
<p>dont u think its better to go to places like Auckland, NUS, Melbourne etc?</p>
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I certainly don't think anyone would choose Vellore or JIPMER over NUS or Auckland
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<p>Care to back that up? If I were to do medicine and if I got into JIPMER, I'd be over the moon, considering that it accepts only 25 general out of state applicants from the hundreds of thousands who apply.</p>
<p>For a medical education your priority should be the exposure that you'd get to varied forms of diseases, the rigor and completeness of your curriculum and the degree that it prepares you for your career as a doctor, and I can assure you that JIPMER, AIIMS, AFMC or CMC Vellore are unmatched or at the very top in this regard.</p>