I'm not sure if there are other's on this board who feel like I do, but if a medical school is listed in WHO/IMED and is recognized in that country, student can do rotations in that country, students can do residency in that country, the school is affiliated with hospitals in that country, the school is recognized by the government of that country, there are students from that country and other countries in the medical school besides US citizens and graduates are able to be licensed in that country, shouldn't that be proof enough that the school is not a diploma mill but a legit medical school?

I can understand the reasons for states putting restriction on USIMG's. It is needed to curb the increasing number of US citizens going aboard to medical schools and returning back to the US while US medical school admissions are falling. It's also an attempt to set medical school standards nationally. However, what worries me is how the states are actually telling us where we can go to medical school. Furthermore, what is the comparision to? Isn't that what the ECFMG was setup for to determine if doctors are able to practice medicne in this country? Can you compare medical schools in other countries to our own medical system? Isn't the US always going to think it has the best training therefore will not fully accept the training of a doctor from another country? Has to be the way the US thinks since individual states are bonding together to restrict USIMG's. This would be unheard of if it applied to all FMG's. The rule is simply for us. We dare not tell Asia that their medical schools is inferior to our own. Yet we do it with each FMG who inters our country to practice medicine. We just don't tell it to them in their face. We do it by keeping them out of top residencies and offering them to work where US citizen trained to be doctors will not work.

The arguement can go the other way. It is we who are seeking licensure in the US. It is we who are chosing to go aboard and then return to the US. Therefore, medical board are entitled to accept or reject anyone they want to.

Yet, there is hope for us US citizen's who know we won't be given the chance to go to an American medical school (At least that's why I'm going aboard, there would be no other reason for me to go aboard). As long as medical boards remain independent of one another, each state makes their own rules. So, it is unlikely that all states will adopt this new policy being pushed to all 50 states. As long as there is 1 state which I can become licensed in, then my struggle to become a physician is well worth the punishment I'll face once I return to the US. That's all I need is one, one state to give me a chance to reach my dreams.

Thank you, many of us FMGs are working very hard just to fulfill our dreams and I thought America is the land of dream with the freedom as president Bush always say.