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Old 05-15-2008, 01:47 AM
losackmd losackmd is offline
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regarding MONEY and some semblance of quality of care

why are you not interested in practicing in the USA?

do you realize the bill you will have at the end of a medical education?

do you realize that no other country except the USA will pay you
enough to pay back loans and survive?
The opportunities for physicians in the USA absolutely surpass that of any other country as far as remuneration.

( if you are independantly wealthy or not paying high tuition fees please move on to another thread)

I am not condoning the US medical system but when the bills start rolling in you really want to be earning money in the USA ( especially with a license so you can moonlite ). I worked in 4 different hospitals moonliting in my last year of residency and earned close to 6 figures. NO other country will pay you this. Im sorry to focus on $$$$$ but thats the horrible
fact of life you cannot escape.

There are an overabundance of physicians in Asia and Europe. There are doctors in Eastern Europe who drive milk trucks. You will not be offered jobs in Europe.
You would have to have a specialty ( like micro surgery or psychiatry)
to be offered a job in England Australia New Zealand Ireland. I have been offered work in all these countries but that is after BOARD CERTIFICATION
and several years in my specialty. If you are paying big bucks to get the MD think about how you are going to pay the bucks back. Again if money is not the issue here and you have the Mother Theresa syndrome,
then go to any third world country after you pass your US Medical licensure exams ( if you are an american ) because i know that you cannot practice in most nations unless you are qualified to practice in the USA.
Doctors are not that highly regarded in the rest of the world as they are in the USA. Doctors in the DR are truly a dime a dozen unless they leave the DR and get further education. My friend a fantastic surgeon earns horrible money in the DR. He is disgusted and has been studying 10 years for the USMLES.
so plan to make it back to the USA but you do not have to practice there.Just take all the exams as if you are planning to stay in the USA.
Without the exams you are really and truly worthless to most foreign nations. Thus there is no easy way out. Think! who really created the formation of all these caribbean medical schools. US ( rich kids )!
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