How do US trained physicians respond when you tell them your from SGU

[SGU06]

This is for people doing clinical rotations at US hospitals, doing residency...or are practicing at a US hospital..thanks everyone

[jaywalk81]

This is for people doing clinical rotations at US hospitals, doing residency...or are practicing at a US hospital..thanks everyone
if you know your stuff and are good, noone really cares where you are from.

[SGU06]

i really hope what you are saying is true. but i just want to know if that pre-medical/medical student stance (both mine and urs) truly exists in the professional setting..

[basupran]

Coming from SGU, people will make that blink judgement, end of story. From there, it is up to you to prove your competence.

[jaywalk81]

u will always be viewed as either an IMG or FMG , but at the end you have to prove that the traning u received was good enough and you gotta be able to prove it. once you can do that, noone really cares anymore.

[jaywalk81]

the same can be with a harvard med grad that doesnt know anything and cant do anything. i highly doubt that he/she will be respected just because he/she came out of harvard med. bottom line..study hard, work hard, prove yourself. thats how it is in this world with anything anyway.

[medic]

They ususally start cracking up and talk to me about that Resident in "ER" who was from Grenada or that TV show, I cannot remember the title now, that was based on Caribbean med students. Then they assign to me nursing duties.

I am so funny!

There is always a stigma, but like previously said, once you show that you are like all the rest, it's all good. At the Fellow and Attending level, no one really asks anymore.

[Nimitt]

All my attendings in residency asked what it was like to do med school on a beautiful island and keep your mind on studying. my chair apparently has been down to SGU and loves the students. 4/5 interns in my surgery are SGU and 2 of us that are categorical are the SGU students. So you can see that there will be those will invariably wont like FMGs and others who wont care as long as you know what you are doing and work hard.

[teratos]

I'm not from SGU, but I don't have any problem telling people I went to AUC. Just today, a new colorectal surgeon in the area was introducing himself around our office. Turns out I went to high shool with him. He went to U of MD. I told him I went to AUC, his comment was "We all end up doing the same thing in the end, doesn't matter how you get there." I think that sums it up. There will be so few people who give you a hard time, it isn't worth worrying about, unless they are entertaining when they get upset. G

[stephew]

if you know your stuff and are good, noone really cares where you are from.before they meet you they might judge but the above statement is true. Day to day onthe wards, no one cares about anything other than how you do.

[prokuror]

We had an attending say this in a full auditorium of residents and students:
Carribean students are dumb! But if they read , a lot, they can pull themselves up to par.
He also said of SGU that the only way we are allowed to study medicine is through the thick wallets of our parents!
Riiight...
And this was in a major SGU clinical center. Go figure.

[Coomassieblue]

Whoa. How did the audience react?

[teratos]

Wow, he sounds like a real genius. G

[Jane0899]

We had an attending say this in a full auditorium of residents and students:
Carribean students are dumb! But if they read , a lot, they can pull themselves up to par.
He also said of SGU that the only way we are allowed to study medicine is through the thick wallets of our parents!
Riiight...
And this was in a major SGU clinical center. Go figure.

That is so rude! What a jerk! I'm wondering where he himself went to med school.....

Which hospital was this?

[Rico]

How do US trained physicians respond when you tell them your from SGU

they would say WOW, my neighbor, cousin, and my best friends did also graduate from SGU. what a coincidence/

[SGU06]

We had an attending say this in a full auditorium of residents and students:
Carribean students are dumb! But if they read , a lot, they can pull themselves up to par.
He also said of SGU that the only way we are allowed to study medicine is through the thick wallets of our parents!
Riiight...
And this was in a major SGU clinical center. Go figure.

Though I find the above comments disturbing, I would actually be more offended if the criticism was from a more even minded individual, instead of someone who has a blatant prejudice towards FMGs.

[stephew]

We had an attending say this in a full auditorium of residents and students:
Carribean students are dumb! But if they read , a lot, they can pull themselves up to par.
He also said of SGU that the only way we are allowed to study medicine is through the thick wallets of our parents!
Riiight...
And this was in a major SGU clinical center. Go figure.tell him to give me call.

[stephew]

i will tell you this; when I was going for my attendings interview, I found out later the view was "well if she came from the caribbean and ended up at hopkins and did well there, she must have *something*". Wound up working for me in a weird way.

[teratos]

i will tell you this; when I was going for my attendings interview, I found out later the view was "well if she came from the caribbean and ended up at hopkins and did well there, she must have *something*". Wound up working for me in a weird way.

I can see that. You had to fight really really really hard to get to JHH. It couldn't be that you had high board scores, or had a personality that people liked, or a good work ethic, like any other person accepted to the program, no.....it must be something more, some "magic", maybe a special perfume, or exceptional skills at hypnotism. No, you couldn't have the exact same qualities they look for in US grads.....

[Nimitt]

WHen I was interviewing at one of the hospitals the PD said to the entire group that some of the best residents he has taught and graduated from his program were SGU students. This was in a room full of 7 SGU students interviewing for surgery and about 15 US students. You could imagine how that made us feel! But of course I didnt match there because of a certain new chair.

[microphage]

When i was doing rounds this week, nobody cared. Ok so it ain't the same inspiring story as the docs but its my story and I'm sticking to it!!!

:P

[Nimitt]

Microphage you dont have to impress any of us! Remember you are the one and only "useless member"!:p

[stephew]

you said this was an at sgu clinical center? which one?

[Andrew21]

All my attendings in residency asked what it was like to do med school on a beautiful island and keep your mind on studying. my chair apparently has been down to SGU and loves the students. 4/5 interns in my surgery are SGU and 2 of us that are categorical are the SGU students. So you can see that there will be those will invariably wont like FMGs and others who wont care as long as you know what you are doing and work hard.

I have to agree. I am working in Surgery office this summer, and when I showed people pictures of Grenada, La Sagesse beach, and the rainforest, they usually say something like "What was I doing going to school in Chicago???" or whatever. None of them treat me differntly, and they have all brought me in to observe stuff. My experience thus far has been pretty cool

Andy