Where should I go for medical school?

WayOutWestMom
Thu, 23 Jun 2016 01:47:01 +0000

students who attend Carribean schools such as St. George’s have a high chance of getting residency positions.

Um. I don’t know where you heard that, but it’s not true.

US citizens who graduate from one of the Big Four Caribbean med schools currently have around a 40% chance of landing a US residency–assuming they make to graduation. The Big Fours are all for-profits schools that ruthlessly cull their students at the end of every semester so that a starting class of about 3000 yields about 800 graduates.

The ECFMG reported that in 2012 only about 200-215 internationals who graduated from the Big Four matched into US residencies.

However, the residency situation is rapidly evolving. Over the past 5 years and in the next 3 years, at least 8 new osteopathic (DO) and 17 allopathic (MD) med schools have open or will open in the US. Additionally all med schools either have already increased their class sizes or in the process of doing so. It’s estimated that by 2020, the number of domestic US medical grads will equal or exceed the number of residency slots available. Caribbean grads-- even US citizen grads-- are getting squeezed out.

[Residency Training and International Medical Graduates: Coming to America No More](http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1475200)

should I just go to a med school in the country where I would be fine with doing my residency?

This is your best option.