You understood it correctly.

An ACGME residency is an accredited residency (it stands for Accreditation Committee on Graduate Medical Education). Residency programs have to maintain standards as well to be accredited.

Not all states require all green cores, but a few do. Pennsylvania and Ohio leap to mind, but I may be mistaken.

You have to do your whole third year in Europe if you go there.

We assist with electives if you ask, but most prefer to set them up on their own. Availability permitting, you can go to any teaching hospital that accepts visiting senior electives. This is one of those few advantages of being a foreign student, as US schools only usually allow 12 weeks of electives.

It is usually not difficult to set your electives up, unless you want to rotate at very popular hospitals. One of our alums tells a story at open houses about how he applied early in his fourth year to do an elective at Harvard, and got his approval in his first year of residency!

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