<p>Can someone tell me about the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar?</p>
<p>I know that it has a six-year program with top-notch facilities and great professors (as I'm sure the campus in Ithaca has).</p>
<p>However, I've also heard that one is considered a Foreign Medical Graduate if they graduate from the WCMC in Qatar, even though it is an overseas Cornell campus.</p>
<p>How would this look when a graduate from WCMC is looking to do his/her residency in America? What if the graduate planned to work and live in Qatar or a place like Dubai?</p>
<p>And finally, how competitive is it? Is it like the Ithaca campus? Even harder?</p>
<p>Trust me Qatar, Dubai, places like that in general make for a depressing university experience. If your really want something out of your education go to Cornell in Ithaca. There is no intellectual atmosphere or enthusiasm in universities in Qatar or Dubai. Just a bunch of kids fooling around. These great professors were probably lured by there by higher wages and benefits than they would receive in the US.</p>
<p>@Noragon - I can’t speak for Qatar and would be curious to know your frame of reference on it (not doubting you, just haven’t heard that opinion before). </p>
<p>Not clear, though, why you would recommend the individual go to Ithaca rather than the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where Weill Cornell Medical College is based.</p>
<p>Sorry ^^ I’m not overly familiar with the Weill Medical College. Either way i’d stay in the US. My main point was that Qatar is crap for university (i’ve lived there).</p>
<p>The weather is crap (the 48 degrees celcius heat will get to you), the students (not all but most), go there because it has the Cornell name attached to it (it is very easy to get in). I know that because a non over acheiving student from my school just got in.</p>
<p>Despite the Cornell name, you will still be a foreign medical graduate. Foreign medical graduates perform worse on the boards (70% first-time pass rate vs. 93%+ for US medical graduates). Out of those who manage to pass the boards, only around half actually match into a residency spot (in comparison to the 95%+ US graduates who match). And those who manage to match usually match into specialties that US medical graduates don’t want (pathology, family med, peds, psychiatry, etc.). </p>
<p>In other words, you want to attend med school in the US if you can.</p>