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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]About the # of foreigners in US med schools[/b]: my understanding is that US med schools generally won't accept pre-requisites completed at non-US colleges/universities (with very limited exceptions for Canadian and certain UK universities).  So, the only way for a "foreigner" to go to med school in the US is to have also gone to undergrad in US or to have completed pre-reqs (such as in a post-bacc program) in the US.

Not the OP, but my DD is interested in the medical professions.  She has a lot of other interests as well.  Rather than select college specifically for pre-med, we are thinking that she should choose a college based on overall fit for all her interests.  And potentially, just do a post-bacc if she ultimately decides that she wants to go to the med school route.

If undergrad pre-med is so brutal, why do more students not do a post-bacc?  (I'm sure cost is a reason, but we are thinking that a more inexpensive undergrad followed by a "prestigious" post-bacc could cost the same or less than pre-med at a "prestigious" undergrad).

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Thread is about importing [b]foreign trained[/b] MDs after flushing out most of our domestic best and brightest during undergrad. We literally push millions of wicked smart American kids into pointless financial services and consulting because they couldn't ace organic chemistry?! It's insanity.[/quote]

Let me repeat what’s already been explained here. People who went to foreign medical schools and foreign residency cannot just get a job here. They must get into a residency program in America (not an easy thing to do) and RE-train here, then pass the American board exams before they apply for and get a job here.

Also keep in mind, many foreign countries track students early on in their schooling and it can be much more difficult to get into medical programs in their countries to begin with.

So basically, another country has already done the weeding out and taken on the expense of training them. We then get already trained doctors in our residency programs that learn even more skills and also don’t need to learn from scratch or get any hand holding from the faculty doctors. They also tend to work harder and complain less because they know they need to make it in order to survive in this country.

If your kid didn’t ace organic chem, well that’s an unfortunate problem.

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