Reputation

[IM/Infectious_:0_Hopeful]

I asked a doctor, psychiatrist, if he had known anyone who graduated from a Caribbean medical school and he mentioned that he knew a few. I am posting because he also mentioned that they sometimes get the reputation of being "partiers". I told him that I had read that.

Do you think this will be a problem when trying to conduct yourself as a medical professional?

[IM/Infectious_:0_Hopeful]

I asked a doctor, psychiatrist, if he had known anyone who graduated from a Caribbean medical school and he mentioned that he knew a few. I am posting because he also mentioned that they sometimes get the reputation of being "partiers". I told him that I had read that.

Do you think this will be a problem when trying to conduct yourself as a medical professional?

[IM/Infectious_:0_Hopeful]

I asked a doctor, psychiatrist, if he had known anyone who graduated from a Caribbean medical school and he mentioned that he knew a few. I am posting because he also mentioned that they sometimes get the reputation of being "partiers". I told him that I had read that.

Do you think this will be a problem when trying to conduct yourself as a medical professional?

[BiologyBY]

no.............

[jasonb123]

weird post

[bogey]

I asked a doctor, psychiatrist, if he had known anyone who graduated from a Caribbean medical school and he mentioned that he knew a few. I am posting because he also mentioned that they sometimes get the reputation of being "partiers". I told him that I had read that.

Do you think this will be a problem when trying to conduct yourself as a medical professional?


wow... yea, gonna be a big problem. at least that's what i read.

[uofm1984]

Yes, you are correct. I go to a caribbean school and I find it impossible to conduct myself in a professional manner. I am late everday. But, it doesn't really matter because I don't enter the classroom. I just stand in the rotunda and fling poop at everyone that walks by. Then I go back to the pigsty I live in and party some more. Good times.

[mspropst]

I asked a doctor, psychiatrist, if he had known anyone who graduated from a Caribbean medical school and he mentioned that he knew a few. I am posting because he also mentioned that they sometimes get the reputation of being "partiers". I told him that I had read that.

Do you think this will be a problem when trying to conduct yourself as a medical professional?

If you can party and still go into the field you want to, what's the problem? As long as you don't come with alcohol in your system to clinicals, residency or your practice after. Party all you want to.

It may be a problem, but most people seem to focus on the carribean part and not the partier part. Also, its only an issue when it comes to residency, 90% of the people I know who go to their doctors don't actually know where their doctors practiced at. 100% of the people I know going into the medical field in some form or fashion know where their doctor went to medical school.

[tegraphile]

To the OP: do you type in your username every time you log in?

I imagine that would be a PITA.

[CANeh]

I asked a doctor, psychiatrist, if he had known anyone who graduated from a Caribbean medical school and he mentioned that he knew a few. I am posting because he also mentioned that they sometimes get the reputation of being "partiers". I told him that I had read that.

Do you think this will be a problem when trying to conduct yourself as a medical professional?

Considering most SGU students work harder on the wards than US medical students. In my opinion that argument doesn't stick.

Plus medical students everywhere get drunk, do stupid stuff, and have loss of memory. It is called type A personality.

[georgelucas45]

It could be a problem. To avoid having to worry about it, I suggest you go to an American School

[kananaskis_girl]

I asked a doctor, psychiatrist, if he had known anyone who graduated from a Caribbean medical school and he mentioned that he knew a few. I am posting because he also mentioned that they sometimes get the reputation of being "partiers". I told him that I had read that.

Do you think this will be a problem when trying to conduct yourself as a medical professional?

yeah, it's going to be super difficult...you know with all of us going out to the clubs every night and not studying for exams and stuff, shoot I barely remember anything due to the drunken haze I was in 24/7 on the island and during clinicals.....:rolleyes:

give me a break, are you for real? I had to read your post a few times over trying to decide if this was coming from a troll or not. Most of my fellow classmates put in massive amounts of hours at the library after classes were finished, they barely had time to relax for a couple hours at the beach, never mind going out and getting wasted every weekend. Medical school requires a lot out of all the students, no matter where that school is based....whether in the US or in a foreign country. And no, an end of term party or a party celebrating end of mid-terms does not label us as "partiers", in fact, I would say that a lot of US MD and DO students could give me a run for my money as far as the partying goes.....

[bogey]

i'm thinking that the replies to your post might get unprofessional so i'll take another shot at answering in hopes of nipping a potential forum stoning in the bud:

i can't imagine that many people can make it through to graduation and then a residency without being able to conduct themselves professionally. there are indeed some great ways to have a good time in st. maarten and there are certainly occasions to break from studying and enjoy what the island offers but by and large the students here are taking medical school seriously. contrary to what you may have read, it's the real deal down here--most aren't going to get by sniffing, drinking and smoking their way through basic sciences.

best of luck to you.

[shwin]

he meant it'd be a problem for other candidates. who wouldn't want the life of the party in their residency program?

[Wh0Kares]

yeah, it's going to be super difficult...you know with all of us going out to the clubs every night and not studying for exams and stuff, shoot I barely remember anything due to the drunken haze I was in 24/7 on the island and during clinicals.....:rolleyes:

give me a break, are you for real? I had to read your post a few times over trying to decide if this was coming from a troll or not. Most of my fellow classmates put in massive amounts of hours at the library after classes were finished, they barely had time to relax for a couple hours at the beach, never mind going out and getting wasted every weekend. Medical school requires a lot out of all the students, no matter where that school is based....whether in the US or in a foreign country. And no, an end of term party or a party celebrating end of mid-terms does not label us as "partiers", in fact, I would say that a lot of US MD and DO students could give me a run for my money as far as the partying goes.....

lol well i think the OP was talking about what outsiders think of us not what the reality is...i mean whenever i say i go to carribean med school everyone thinks i'm at the beach every day with a pina colada

[RickRoss]

That's the dumbest generalization I've ever heard haha.

[Aviv Imanuel]

The way you conduct as a doctor has nothing to do as were you went to school. You will partiers, yes, and flunkers too, most of the time, the same crow that parties, flunks, and do not get to end behaving as physicians, because...they don't don't get be one for starters!



I asked a doctor, psychiatrist, if he had known anyone who graduated from a Caribbean medical school and he mentioned that he knew a few. I am posting because he also mentioned that they sometimes get the reputation of being "partiers". I told him that I had read that.

Do you think this will be a problem when trying to conduct yourself as a medical professional?

[IM/Infectious_:0_Hopeful]

The post was title "Reputation"

Some people didnt get what I was talking about so i will try again. Since there are some people who have IMG stereotyped as partiers. Do you think that would hold you back?

I know that if you work hard at Ross, SGU, AUC or SABA and do well on your step as well as clinical rotations obtaining a residency is not as hard as some people might make it or think it is. However, when dealing with patients do you think that would effect you being that you are stereotyped?

[Itempest]

The post was title "Reputation"

Some people didnt get what I was talking about so i will try again. Since there are some people who have IMG stereotyped as partiers. Do you think that would hold you back?

I know that if you work hard at Ross, SGU, AUC or SABA and do well on your step as well as clinical rotations obtaining a residency is not as hard as some people might make it or think it is. However, when dealing with patients do you think that would effect you being that you are stereotyped?

I think people do get what you're talking about and for the most part have answered appropriately... Yes, people may stereotype IMGs as partiers, but more so as lazy or incompetent. Yes, those stereotypes may affect you and then again, they may not - really depends on the individual nature of the people you work with. From what I am told, however, your patients will almost never care. If anything, it will be your colleagues or superiors, but it's only a matter of time before you either confirm their stereotype, if it's true in your case, or distinguish yourself and extinguish any label you may have been given. You probably won't be able to single-handedly salvage the "reputation" of Caribbean students, but each individual student can certainly take steps toward proving their abilities.

[Wh0Kares]

It could be a problem. To avoid having to worry about it, I suggest you go to an American School

haha you don't say? why didn't i think of that!

[futureboy]

OP, if people didn't understand your original post, it is because it was poorly written...

[Slaol_121]

I think IF someone was to care about something, it would be about the quality of education received at an offshore school - not what the person did in their free time.

I'm only guessing... but unless you do something illegal or stupid, I doubt that anyone is going to care about you being a Caribbean grad. If you do mess up, the fact that you studied in the Caribbean will probably be one of the first "red flags" investigated.

[basupran]

Parties at Caribbean med schools involve going into a drunken haze for about 24 hours and not recalling how you got back home. Parties at American med schools involve going straight to the library and chugging 40oz of coffee in preparation for the next set of exams.

Who cares what anyone else says-you want to be a doctor, do what you have to. Don't let fools who generalize dissuade you. In the end, there are docs who know their stuff and docs who don't-aim to be the former.

[rokshana]

Parties at Caribbean med schools involve going into a drunken haze for about 24 hours and not recalling how you got back home. Parties at American med schools involve going straight to the library and chugging 40oz of coffee in preparation for the next set of exams.

Who cares what anyone else says-you want to be a doctor, do what you have to. Don't let fools who generalize dissuade you. In the end, there are docs who know their stuff and docs who don't-aim to be the former.

that's not really fair...people tend to settle doen a bit more in clinicals but in basics, med students, US and otherwise still have a tendency to study hard, party hard....usually after exams there is usually some big blow out party...US students tend to generally be better about compartmentalizing fun time and study time(guess its one of the reasons why they are in a US school:D).

[basupran]

that's not really fair...people tend to settle doen a bit more in clinicals but in basics, med students, US and otherwise still have a tendency to study hard, party hard....usually after exams there is usually some big blow out party...US students tend to generally be better about compartmentalizing fun time and study time(guess its one of the reasons why they are in a US school:D).


Hey rokshana, I was just kidding. Med students everywhere party...at least I hope.

[ReemaNirwal]

why isn't this controversial....

[tenordoc]

Medical students in general party pretty hard. I know my sister's class in Canada was pretty hard core, and a lot of the partying I saw in the Caribbean doesn't hold a candle to what I've seen with UK and Irish med students. But in the end, you have no control over what someone thinks of you or of your educational path. So why bother trying? You do have control over your own choices, though. So instead of worrying about things you can't control, spend your finite energies on changing those you can.