<p>hello,i am interested in joinin an undergraduate program in the US. so what steps will i have to follow?will someone please enlist allthe steps involved.i know only the beginning that i hv 2 take SATI first.i am currently studyin in 11th std.this topic might hv been discussed before but can someone please tell me again.also i have heard that some universities do not accept international students, is that true?can u list some universities that do? approximately, how much might the whole course cost?thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Check the following link you might get some answers
[List</a> of Undergraduate Medical Schools in the U.S.](<a href=“http://education-portal.com/undergraduate_medical_schools.html]List”>List of Undergraduate Medical Schools in the U.S.)</p>
<p>And this too</p>
<p><a href=“http://premium.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/sitemap[/url]”>http://premium.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/sitemap</a></p>
<p>thanks for that…but can u tell me if this is the procedure for gettin into a university…
- Write the SATI and get good scores.
- Apply to good universities and then if my app is accepted,
- Take up SATII and if i get good scores again,
- the university wil admit me right?
and also do u know anything about how much the whole program might cost, approximately?</p>
<p>You need to give SAT and SAT 2 only for colleges on your list that require it.</p>
<p>The above link of US news will give all the details that you are looking for.</p>
<p>You can also go to collegeboard.com for details.</p>
<p>You begin the application process in August of your 12 grade through Commomapp.</p>
<p>You would need to have list ready before you begin the application process.</p>
<p>The list would be based on various factors eg. the course you want, the location, the size of class, the cost of tuition, private or public, city or suburban setting and whatever else you might want to consider.</p>
<p>After shortlisting the college on above and the most important factors your grades and SAT scores, you will need to read about each of them in your list to figure out if that is where you want to go. Trust me you will have plenty of options.</p>
<p>So basically you need to sit down and do research and you will be able to get answers to all your questions.</p>
<p>Also as per my understanding in US they do not directly admit you to a medical college, you need to do premed which is a 4 year course and then you sit for MCAT and that score decides your Medical college admission. I think it takes more than 10 years to become a practicing doctor in USA.</p>
<p>No such thing as undergraduate medical program in USA. Medical School (MD or DO) is a graduate school, therefore you need an undergraduate degree in any major, taken with pre-medical prerequisite courses. And then you take the MCAT exam, do interviews and get selected for a 4-year Medical degree program. After that you do 3 years of residency in a specialization.</p>
<p>So you are looking at a minimum of 11 years (4yrs undergrad + 4yrs MD/DO + 3yrs residency) to be fully qualified as a physician in USA.</p>
<p>There are a few schools that have a 8yr or 7yr direct medical program where you are guaranteed admission to medical school, right when you get admission into undergraduate college. Even these schools, only a few seats are set aside for their 8 or 7yr programs and so the competition is fierce.</p>
<p>I agree with brutallyhonest. Medical degree in the US is a long process. You need to get into a biology or related major, get a great GPA, then take MCAT, get a great score, then interviews etc before you even get selected to a 4 year medical program. In fact, some folks (esp indian origin kids) from here go to India and get their medical degrees.</p>
<p>4 years undergrad.
- During this time you take the MCAT. </p>
<p>1- who knows: gap year(s) if you think you need to strengthen your gpa to get in.</p>
<p>4 years med school.
-70k per year tuition for privates…public schools are much towards accepting domestic students only. </p>
<p>Residency (atleast 3-4 yrs (for primary physician)…7-9yrs for other specialties (Ortho, dermatol, radio…etc)…this may not include fellowship component for say Cardiovascular surgery?). </p>
<p>Summary: Only the truly wanting students will pursue this. Rarely are internationals admitted, and I am not exaggerating. Go to the pre med forum of the site and you will hear less than pleasant aspects for internationals. You might fare better at places like England and europe though. I am reporting this so that even if you decide to come U.S. or something, just major in something that can hold some prospects for you as a job if you decide later that you may not have that great of an affection. </p>
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Maybe, or maybe not. However, this limits them from practicing in other places since the process is much quicker and shorter than in the west. :/</p>
<p>I completely agree with @ways in that medicine is needed to be looked at quite thoroughly. It is not as simple as it may be in Asia. The reason why the programs there are quicker is because they are oriented towards the european way where you actually prepare for a career way in advance in your early life than here in the U.S. Additionally, the population is a lot in comparison to here, so the demand for doctors must be met quickly, and so a quicker production of doctors is at request (not to say that here even we need more doctors than current numbers display). There are so many stories about kids here wanting to be doctors and once they find out the daily task of what a doctor does, they really do consider it not twice, not thrice, but many times. It doesn’t take a dream to accomplish the molding of the future alone. You have to be able to question yourself for what purpose and with what degree you will do YOURSELF justice if you become a doctor. Many people kind of make you think the other way around by saying: “HOW CAN YOU DO JUSTICE TO PEOPLE”. But let’s be frank here people: almost 300k in the hole, and someone really not wanting to do it for the money or something? So when the problem extends over this far, you really gotta ask whether you are certain that a) You will be happy, and b) that you will remain healthy (mentally and physically) while doing the work. Not trying to make you crawl in a crib, but THIS IS REALITY. Don’t go into lalaland with a snicker’s bar thinking life will be sweet. There is a whole new environment to the field.</p>
<p>^ @ ways…your first link is like “This doesn’t make sense///”. Some schools that were listed…in my experience…don’t even have a med school. They may have MEDICALLY RELATED programs (but they don’t give you an MD degree…for that you have to go to med school), but you are better off majoring in something like electrical engineering because biomedical engineering doesn’t pay that greatly in comparison to the vast number of engineering programs that are available. But the schools in that link are good state schools and may even be very welcoming in terms of accepting internationals.</p>
<p>See this [How</a> to Become a Doctor in the USA | eHow.com](<a href=“http://www.ehow.com/how_4912794_become-doctor-usa.html]How”>http://www.ehow.com/how_4912794_become-doctor-usa.html)
If you have a foreign MBBS, you are required to pass the USMLE (Step 1/2/3) and be accepted to a hospital for residency. Then you need to pass the board exams in the US.</p>