Well I'm basically contemplating the leap to a Caribbean Medical School. I know it's not an easy process, but as Canadian, I'm scared that the doors open will be very scarce, and the risk might be to great.

So I was just wondering SGU Grads, where are you now?

What kind of opportunities are there for fellowships, research, consulting, policy/gov't work, international health, organization involvement (eg. doctors without borders)?

What kinds of things did you do to set yourself apart as an IMG to land prestigious residencies etc.?

My SGU interviewer is currently practicing as a rheumatologist in Montreal

Not an SGU grad, but of those I've met through interviewing, initial contacts, and open houses:

One guy practicing in internal medicine in San Jose, California. One OB/GYN in Oakland, CA. One guy with his own practice (don't know what specialty) in San Francisco, CA. One guy finishing up a nice residency in emergency medicine somewhere in the Bay Area; one woman finishing her last year of residency (and she's an older student; graduated in her 40s) doing internal medicine in Oakland, CA.

Don't know anything about how those going to Canada do, since I live in CA, but from whom I've met and through the general grapevine (everyone seems to have a friend of a friend that's an IMG), California, which tends to be difficult to get into, is crawling with em.

harvard radonc.

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One of the original Canadian grads from SGU:

http://www.uphcn.org/directry/docuphcn/daltonr1.html

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Just had a guy down here who is an assistant (clinical) prof at yale. Think he graduated in the mid 80's.

This is awesome, keep them coming!

Seriously great stories, indeed! Go to SGU's website. According to them, Yale's head of Cardiothoracic surgery is an SGU grad. Nifty story to read. . .
Congrats to you all, no matter where you did your residency! I have humble aspirations to soon follow your footsteps!
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Check with the international admissions coordinator at SGU. She'd be more than happy to provide a listing of the Canadians that went through the program and what residencies they attained. It's suprising when you see the list that, some go back to the mid 80's. Anyways, if you're nice enough, she'll also give you some email addresses of Canadians currently in residency. Currently there's one finishing up his residency in Cali doing ER, two in NY doing IM (one at Columbia another at Maimo). And the list goes on...

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After residency (in central/northern California), I went into private practice first and helped set up a Department of Hospital Medicine in a large multispecialty medical group as one of the first hospitalist-intensivists in the group.

Last year, I was recruited to join a fairly large US medical school as a full time faculty/academic hospitalist, with an appointment of Assistant Professor of Medicine. I also currently hold a liason federal medical officer appointment in one of the alphabet agencies under Dept. of Homeland Security (as a representative from the med school)

Sorry, I choose not to be any more specific in a public forum... folks who know me outside of here knows who/where I am.

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