For a moment I felt that everything was under control and I knew what was going on, but once again I am questioning the choice of studying medicine abroad. It seems impossible to assess or comprehend the situation. Moreover, the outcomes of studying abroad still appear to be deceiving ones. I was glad to notice that there were residence positions available for IMG at various locations, but again it’s not a certainty that four years from now I will be able to avail myself the opportunity of attaining a residence, which might be taken my a better qualified IMG or might not be even available for IMG’s.

But anyways….

I was looking at the graduates at St. George’s School of Medicine, and just as I had thought, most of the graduates are in family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, Ob/Gyn, and surgery. There were only few numbers of graduates who are in neurology, which makes me feel a bit better about the Silesian or Lublin medical school as the graduates are in one of those fields.

The only plus is Caribbean medical schools have excellent USMLE pass rate. I just read a section in a book about IMG, and the data of 2000 showed very high passing rate on USMLE for a Caribbean student.


Is there any possible way to find out what percent of students who took the USMLE from Poland or Caribbean passed it in their first attempt?


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