one year college for foreign students

b_r_um
Sat, 14 Mar 2020 22:29:41 +0000

If you can finance medical school in the US (otherwise, don’t even consider applying), and if you want to study in the US for one year prior to medical school, then your best option is a post-baccalaureate pre-medical program.

They exist so that students can fill gaps between their undergraduate coursework and medical school admission requirements. The big advantage of these programs is that some of them have guaranteed-admission pathways to particular medical programs, provided that you achieve a certain GPA and certain MCAT scores.

I am not a big fan of stand-alone year-long English-as-a-foreign language programs for students who can do well enough on the TOEFL to gain admission to regular university programs. Anatomy and physiology classes will teach you the actual vocabulary you will need for medical school; generic English classes will not. You can also take one or two English classes in a post-bac pre-med program, since US medical schools typically require an English composition class for admission.