medical school is more than just studying science..it is a whole process that includes modeling after your professors,etc. I do not believe that med schools in the US or other first worlds will go to solely online study for the first 2 years but who knows. I do not believe that US med schools are the best/only way to go...but I do believe that professors qualifications have some direct bearing. There are many people with science backgrounds who could probably pass the USMLE's without going to med school....but that isn't the only thing one needs.

It appears I'm not going to answer your question with the answers you want but lets say this...I admire you for going to a Mexican med school. They prepare good doctors. I volunteer with Doctors To The World/Dentists To The World and we have seen the good work of Mexican drs/dentists in the rural health centers where young doctors must intern. With relatively poor equipment they turn out good medicine. I witnessed birds flying out of an operating suite in Gtz. Zamora,Veracruz, where my wife is from. Our group donated an air conditioner so that they could close up their operating room again.

Medical education is complex to non-medical people like me but I am thinking that I prefer my care providers to have gone to medical school and not through the computer. As one med school prof told me "I help people learn things by throwing them the mike and asking them to describe something on the fly...a skill they must learn when they have to make decisions in a similiar fashion in real life. I want to see the whites of their eyes as they deal with stress and I can help them."

Az-Skeptic Dean Hughson