Our Turn...WHy bother to keep jumping?

MYMD · #1 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 06:25 PM

WHy bother to keep jumping throught the Hoops for a US school?

"You need a 3.7 no a 3.8 GPA a 32 MCAT no wait a 35 MCAT, shadowing, volunteering, Patient experience, Community service, Research, Published......................" On and on and on for sometimes years of applying and not getting accepted, I know one guy who has a 3.6 gpa sci 3.7 and a MCAT of 34 and guess what? No acceptances in the US! What? you say?
WHat did he do wrong, nothing he did everything he was supposed to, and still this will be year 2 with not getting in. The system is a mess, they let in a 3.1 with a MCAT of 28 and not this guy. Yes I know minorities rule, but what happened to fair???? They say they are fair but the system is so messed up in the US that it is unbalanced in many ways.

Caribbean and Foriegn schools are the balance to the system, Students can go abroad and study medicine.

But there are snobbs everywhere, one surgical resident recently said "We do not even consider FMG's for residency, they just do not measure up to our high standard" What?????? How do you know until you have them in a program? They will not even consider someone with a 250 on the USLME! This is the crap we put up with, the snobbs the stupid attitudes they do not have any facts to back them up.

There is nothing wrong with what we are doing.

To the snobby US premeds who think the Caribbean is a shortcut, we will be seeing you soon!!!!!!!

DRDRWMD · #2 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by MYMD

WHy bother to keep jumping throught the Hoops for a US school?

"You need a 3.7 no a 3.8 GPA a 32 MCAT no wait a 35 MCAT, shadowing, volunteering, Patient experience, Community service, Research, Published......................" On and on and on for sometimes years of applying and not getting accepted, I know one guy who has a 3.6 gpa sci 3.7 and a MCAT of 34 and guess what? No acceptances in the US! What? you say?
WHat did he do wrong, nothing he did everything he was supposed to, and still this will be year 2 with not getting in. The system is a mess, they let in a 3.1 with a MCAT of 28 and not this guy. Yes I know minorities rule, but what happened to fair???? They say they are fair but the system is so messed up in the US that it is unbalanced in many ways.

Caribbean and Foriegn schools are the balance to the system, Students can go abroad and study medicine.

But there are snobbs everywhere, one surgical resident recently said "We do not even consider FMG's for residency, they just do not measure up to our high standard" What?????? How do you know until you have them in a program? They will not even consider someone with a 250 on the USLME! This is the crap we put up with, the snobbs the stupid attitudes they do not have any facts to back them up.

There is nothing wrong with what we are doing.

To the snobby US premeds who think the Caribbean is a shortcut, we will be seeing you soon!!!!!!!

When I left for the Caribbean, I was told that it will be harder, but not impossible to get into a residency. Snobs are everywhere in the medical field, I sat in presentations where doctors bag on foreign grads; however, they are too socially incompetent to realize a third of the audience are foreign grads. It is what you know to some degree, but it is also who you know. This forum is preaching to the choir, the ones who need to hear reside in US medical schools.

dksamp · #3 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 06:45 PM

AMEN my Brotha...Being on the private practice side of things, that SAME surgeon who was being a snob is the SAME GUY who is going to be relying on REFERRALS from people like me (the so-called FMG's). Specialists don't realize, the AVERAGE JOE, EVEN if he has a PPO doesn't look in the phonebook to find him. They are almost always referred by a PCP. If the PCPs in the community don't send him any good paying work, he ain't gonna survive, and he will be stuck doing uninsured on-call bowel surgeries. On top of that, he might need the help of an FMG surgeon for CROSS-COVERAGE. Remind him of that concept next time you run into him.

PEACE!

-Derek

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Originally Posted by MYMD

But there are snobbs everywhere, one surgical resident recently said "We do not even consider FMG's for residency, they just do not measure up to our high standard" What?????? How do you know until you have them in a program? They will not even consider someone with a 250 on the USLME! This is the crap we put up with, the snobbs the stupid attitudes they do not have any facts to back them up.

There is nothing wrong with what we are doing.

PiccoloPlaya · #4 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 06:48 PM

Well with Ross, SGU and AUC accepting about 23423432 people per term 3 times a year, most of our next decades doctors are prolly gonna end up being from the caribs anyway so that stigma might have to disappear soon.

jameslynton · #5 (**permalink**) 10-14-2006, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by PiccoloPlaya

Well with Ross, SGU and AUC accepting about 23423432 people per term 3 times a year, most of our next decades doctors are prolly gonna end up being from the caribs anyway so that stigma might have to disappear soon.

American Medicine has many issues. Solutions evolve. You can be part of the problem - part of the solution or part of the landscape. Most American schools have decided to be part of the problem or part of the landscape.
I feel the whole system needs to be revamped. Medicine is big business. Most businesses are run on myths. So I will be watching to see where the trends go in the next few years. Where I live in Georgia - we have a shortage of MD's, DO,s and RN's. They are doing nothing to fix the issue. Other than now RN - nurse practioners can now write presciptions for antibiotics as of 8/1/2006. I expect more changes will happen in the future.

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