<p>Is it true that once you had an undergraduate degree in the US it is virtually impossible to go back to Canada for medical (or graduate) school?</p>
<p>My dad's friend told him that a friend of his had a daughter who had a 4.0 gpa at John Hapkins University (majored in biology) undergraduate and was rejected by both McGill and Toronto's medical schools. (She's a Canadian, by the way.) This seems impossible I know but this is what my dad was told. The girl eventually ended up in UPenn med (which is also great,) but I just want to know if such thing is true?</p>
<p>I doubt it. There must have been some other mitigating factor. I have a friend who just graduated from McGill's Medical School and he had done his undergraduate degree at a middle of the road LAC in Illinois, if I'm not mistaken.</p>
<p>I also think that McGill tends to accept people who most likely won't bolt straight for the US right after graduation. There is a big problem in Quebec, and to a lesser extent the rest of Canada, with med students fleeing to the US, where they have better work conditions and bigger pay. If a student from John Hopkins, who has done all her schooling in the US, is up against a kid with ties to Montreal or Quebec who has done some school in the city, I would guess that the kid from MTL might get the nod. I'm fairly sure the med school admissions board would not admit to this, but I feel this might be the case.</p>
<p>A friend of mine does interviews for UBC med school and told my D (US citizen) that there are NO SPOTS for non-canadians......they are limiting that way, I don't know about the Canadian citizen, though</p>
<p>I'm fairly positive some of those programs shut the tap off to American kids pretty fast. Alot of Canadian universities don't like US kids who come up for the cheap education than immediatley head back to the US for the great salaries. Provincial governments like them even less. Personally, I find that particular view disenchanting, since grad schools should try and accept the very best students, no matter where they are coming from.</p>
<p>There was an article about this in the last few months, but I don't remember where - yeah, spots in Canadian and European med schools are virtually guaranteed for natives. There's a major physician shortage in Canada now, too, which makes it even more of a hot topic. But as med schools in those areas are funded by the government (in part or full, depending on the country), spots are limited.</p>