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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pre Internet, one could easily get away with (hide) a Caribbean MD.  Most docs only posted their licenses, fellowships on office walls, etc so the patient has to really dig up the docs credentials.  Obviously the ball game has changed.  For same cost, Why would anyone with a choice elect to see a Caribbean doc over a JHU doc?  I would never…[/quote]

Not if they had similar residencies?[/quote]

I think many people don't fully appreciate that med school is 4 years (generally 2 primarily classroom based and 2 generally clinical based), and most residences are 3-4 years, with fellowship they could be longer. The Caribbean med school graduates do rotations primarily in American hospitals (or at least used to).

Also, if you are hospitalized or have tests done, you have no control where your pathologist, radiologist, ICU doc, ER doc, anesthesiologist or hospitalist went to school.

The Caribbean schools have a lot of problems -- first and foremost the cost and the fact that so many of their grads can't get residencies etc  When grads do match, they are often at less prestigious or attractive places, or maybe in less attractive fields. The grads are not usually the path to becoming leading academic medical researchers.

Personally, I would not go out of my way to find a grad from one of those schools. But this hysteria around avoiding one who had done a US residency and fellowship (especially one who had been practicing 5+ years) is crazy to me.

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