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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How s the college weeding out your DD's friends who were planning to attend med school?  Are you aware that you don't have to major in pre-med to apply to med school? You just need to take the pre requisites (which are science based) and that's why most med students are biology or chemistry majors.  Organic Chemistry is a TOUGH class so maybe the friends didn't do well, but guess what, Organic Chemistry is on the MCAT and studied n med school so maybe it's IMPORTANT!

You seem to have a lot of knowledge on who is weeded out, but not supplying the specific facts.

Signed, Mom of a kid in his 4th year of med school[/quote]

All those foreign doctors are acing exact orgo chem, etc. courses & posting tippy top MCAT? Yeah, riiiiiight.[/quote]

Foreign med school graduates must take both steps of the US Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) before they are eligible to apply for residency in the US. These scores would be weighed heavily, and compared to scores of US med school graduates, by institutions that take on residents.

So, yes, foreign med school doctors are competing against US educated students, but not at the high school (SAT) or college (course grades/MCAT) level, but at the med school USMLE level.

Since there are more residency spots than US med school graduates (don't know why so many posters keep insisting the weeding out is the lack of residency, rather than med school, slots) it does give room to admit foreign grads who might have lower USMLE scores.  These would be overwhelmingly in primary care specialties because so many US grads eschew them for higher paying specialties, either because they are in medicine in large part for the money or because of the debt burden they carry that many foreign graduates do not.

But for the specialties that are harder to get residencies in, foreign educated doctors face stiff competition from US students.[/quote]

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