What path is best for a Caribbean student wanting to eventually practice in America

mmmcdowe
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:49:41 +0000

go4, there are indeed more spots available for residency relative to medical schools for international students, but take a few things to heart:

1) There are also many more people applying to residency from abroad
2) Many of those applicants that are accepted are american FMGs or FMGs from Canada and western europe. The others tend to be among the best medical students from their respective countries. Many are already practicing physicians that are going through residency again so that they can come to the US.
3) While most US medical schools have a sizable chunk of family and internal med folk, the difference is that FMGs struggle to get anything besides family and IM. Plus, the programs that they match to are the ones no one in the US schools wanted.