Originally Posted by NYladoo

To say you only want primary care before you start medical school is not a well thought out statement. People do change their minds during clinical rotations and if you got to a school that doesn't have a reputation for grads matching into the specialty that you later find you love and can't see yourself doing anything, you'll be unhappy settling for something less than your ideal. Good clinical rotations (which almost all will say exist in the US compared to Mexico) are also important because a bad educational experience may force to rule out out specialty that might have been the one for you. Therefore, US clinicals will allow you to see how medicine is practiced in the US (where you want to practice) with modern, state-of-the-art technology. Finally, residency programs don't look as highly upon foreign grads who have no US clinical experience (especially in the the field in which they are applying) compared to those that do have such experience. Don't put yourself in that situation, go to a school with strong US clinical rotations.