Dear Friends: One of the aspect or cause of our failure to get into residency program here in USA is wasting of time in observerships. The programs don’t consider observerships/research/externship as clinical experience for foreign medical graduates because whatever you do they think it’s not a quality clinical experience. So I don’t know how much [...]
Along with “the USMLE is getting harder every year” claim, these 2 are probably the longest running and most persistent myth in various USMLE forums since 2005. The examination for IMGs (International Medical Graduates) and AMGs come from the same pool of questions and are more or less the same. The only difference being that [...]
Well, I’ve read that sentence in a website a couple of months ago (..don’t remember the URL). So they say it’s getting even harder for a foreign medical graduate (FMG) to get a residency in the United States. That may lead to sending the foreign doctors to remote places, like rural areas,..etc. Racism? mm,.. I [...]
Rodolfo A. Armas-Merino, MD, FACPProfessor of MedicineUniversity of Chile If you are a Spanish-speaking International Graduate applying for a residency in the USA, may I tell you that you are in one of the most important moments of your life. You are facing a moment of great perspectives. The most important incentives that we physicians [...]