Thread: ER Residence

How hard is it to get into ER residence?

Obtaining an ER residency as a foreing grad is HARD but not impossible. Great board scores would help and doing an ER rotation in an FMG-friendly hospital (and working your *** off while there), will help a LOT. I know 4-5 AUC grads who have obtained ER residencies in the past couple years. Go for it! Good luck...

Does anyone know of FMG-friendly hospitals in CA? How is Kern and Arrowhead in regards to residency and FMGs? Especially with an ER residency.

I thought if you are American and go offshore for med school you are a IMG and an FMG was a foreigner that got a med degree from somewhere other then the US but is coming to the US to practice (residency etc). Or are they the same thing? I thought there was a post about this somewhere. I have also heard USIMG term used. What's the deal here?

California...
Kern is friendly to students from the Big Three in their IM program. Don't know the rest. Kern was not an SGU affiliate when I was a student, so I don't have first hand knowledge.

Arrowhead Regional (the one in San Bernadino) is getting a bit tougher on IMG's ever since they picked up their affiliation with Western Univeristy (the DO school in Pomona). They do not have an ER residency that I'm aware of. I did my FP elective there, and they had sevearal IMG's in their FP program... one of them was an AUC grad. There FP program is dually acredited by both the allopathic and osteopathic boards. They do not have an IM residency program. Their surgery residents come from Loma Linda's surgery program who do a few months of rotations there.

USC takes several IMG's into their IM programs each year... it's a huge program with 56 IM categorical intern spots per year. When I interviewd there, I met an AUC grad.

EM is very difficult for IMG's to get in California. If you want EM as an IMG, you need to realistically consider the East Coast for residencies. It won't happen in California. The only offshore IMG's who have gotten EM's in California in recent years are SGU grads who matched into Highland EM (about 1 or 2 per year) since it's one of their affiliated hospitals.

California programs tend to be school-specific when it comes to IMG preferences. I don't know much about AUC's affiliations... you may want to look into these hospitals....

Picard

Kern's ER program is not very IMG friendly, actually they would readily take U.S. students with far lower board scores etc.....go figure. I believe there may now be a new program director, so things may be different...unlikely but who knows. With that being said, there was an AUC grad who got ER at Kern last year. He was a prelim surgery resident when I was doing my 3rd year there.....a spot became available and they put him in it.....they saw his work, they liked him and he scored.

ER residency is difficult to obtain....I know first hand....but certainly not impossible. So far for this year's application process I have 5 interviews for ER.....all in Detroit and NY.