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Originally Posted by GeorgeMD2B
There are many students from those schools who never get a degree too or become physicians. A foreign medical school should be an ABSOLUTE LAST RESORT. I don't care what country it is in. Looking back I wish I tried to apply to DO programs.
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I have been an attending physician in the usa for MANY years and am a Caribe grad.
There are many reasons people never reach their goal. Some are homesick. Depressed from a different culture. Some simply realize it is not what they really wanted or thought it was. For some the sheer volume of learning doesn't suit them.
Many change their majors in university within their home country. Still, when u consider the hurdles that many HAVE overcome and succeeded in their goals it is quite worthy.
Nowadays you don't even need to learn a new language. Many schools teach in english and gear their studies for usmle.
I have witnessed people quitting medicine prior to completing their residency. (USMG's) I have seen USMG's kicked out of residency programs for either/or incompetency, behavioral stuff, addiction.
Graduating from ANY LCME school is indeed POLITICALLY CORRECT and will make it easier to get a residency, etc,etc.
Nowadays a DO is more or less equivalent to a US MD, though after many years of legal battles by DO's and DO schools. Organized medicine pulled the same stunts attempting to discredit DO's.
The fact is many have succeeded and some haven't. That holds true in any profession, any school, anywhere.