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Originally Posted by Southerndoc
Thanks for the information guys, I really appreciate it!
So basically, I shouldn't bet on being able to practice in Texas...but there's still a VERY slight glimmer of hope that I can.
If anyone can answer this question for me I'd appreciate it:
IAUStudent06 stated "Secondly, no Caribbean school will be LCME or AOA approved, those are for U.S. schools in MD and DO, respectively."
If schools like Ross, Xavier, St. Georges are 'US ACCREDITED' then why are they not considered 'U.S. Schools'? I know they are not geographically in the U.S., but is that the reason why they can't be LCME or AOA approved??? That doesn't make sense to me.
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the LCME has jurisdiction over schools that open in the US, canada, and puerto rico and there is no "US accreditation" the degrees of sgu, ross, AUC are
accepted in all 50 states because these schools have gone through application process with each individual state that requires it either just for clinicals, for residency, for full unrestricted licensure or any combo. new york, florida have approvals for clinicals and or residency. california is about as close to a LCME school you will get and auc, ross, sgu, and saba are on that list and are about as comparable to a US school as you will get in the caribbean.
for your purposes texas has a list they have reviewed and view as "equivalent" to a texas lcme school..that is AUC, Ross, and SGU thats it. coming from these schools you do not have to prove equivalency just the rotation requirements.
foreign schools have to go through the regulations of their own country. there are independent accrediting bodies that will look at the standards used by the country and state that they are similar to US standards but that is far from "accreditation". all a foreign school needs to do to open is pay a fee to the govt they want and get a letter and charter....the letter is then sent to IMED directory for listing...this is basically a phone book of all medical schools, it doesn't say which are open/closed, standards, or anything else
as you can see it is complicated and it gets worse...when you are done with med school some states use the califiornia list to license you, some use it as a guideline to approve or deny you...some states have their own list of approved or disapproved schools like indiana, oregon. kansas requires a school to be open for 15 yearsd before they license you and then there are even more cloudy reqs like pre med courses, how many times you took a licensing exam before passing and it goes on and on and on
basically try to get into the best school you can..number one should be in the US, then outside and look for schools that have a long track record of putting out fully licensed doctors...not residents but full practicing docs...how long they have been around, pass rates, how many they admit vs how many graduate on time. to start off the foreign route by going to a new carib school is just not sensible if you have other options..collectively sgu, auc, and ross have more than 10,000 practicing doctors in every specialty in every state. the path has already been laid all you gotta do is follow it rather than blaze new paths and look for loopholes try to go into a long stating program.
this doesn't say that graduating from a new school will make you a bad doctor, that you willnot work, or that you are a bad student but why would you limit where youcan work if you don't have to?