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MSK9's Medical School Thread & Guide
(08-14-2023, 01:49 AM)AlvinG Wrote:
(06-18-2023, 03:48 AM)bjcheung77 Wrote:
adrianeraldo Wrote:Any updates? I've been following this post and is very interesting...

@adrianeraldo, Please review this post: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid395061

What happened to OP? Are they okay? Looks like things were going great and then they disappeared.

I suspect they don't have a lot of free time with medical school, residency, etc...
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(08-14-2023, 12:11 PM)allvia Wrote:
(08-14-2023, 01:49 AM)AlvinG Wrote:
(06-18-2023, 03:48 AM)bjcheung77 Wrote:
adrianeraldo Wrote:Any updates? I've been following this post and is very interesting...

@adrianeraldo, Please review this post: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid395061

What happened to OP? Are they okay? Looks like things were going great and then they disappeared.

I suspect they don't have a lot of free time with medical school, residency
Drinking and partying at their Caribbean school??? Haha. I’ve known a few to complete Hospital rotations while being pregnant. I highly doubt they’re too busy for a 3 minute update… 
Medical school is challenging, but you very much still do have a life.
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Maybe they'll give an update sooner or later, it seems the OP is on the last year (4th year) and may be doing clinical rotations and will hit residency anytime soon after graduation! They're most likely working on match-ups with hospitals and what not for their rotations and prepping for residency right after, busy times, they'll update whenever...
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(08-15-2023, 03:40 AM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Maybe they'll give an update sooner or later, it seems the OP is on the last year (4th year) and may be doing clinical rotations and will hit residency anytime soon after graduation!  They're most likely working on match-ups with hospitals and what not for their rotations and prepping for residency right after, busy times, they'll update whenever...
I’m excited for that!!! They are kicking butt and taking names accomplishing this haha.
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(08-14-2023, 10:35 PM)AlvinG Wrote: Drinking and partying at their Caribbean school??? Haha. I’ve known a few to complete Hospital rotations while being pregnant. I highly doubt they’re too busy for a 3 minute update… 
Medical school is challenging, but you very much still do have a life.

You might be surprised. Nonetheless, I'm still around. Been crazy busy with clerkships but things are good. Hectic, but good. Students are only on the island for the first two years. Years 3 and 4 are Stateside or in the UK (depending on preference) for clinical clerkships. I apologize for missing a bunch of new posts; been trying to keep my eye on the prize. I finish the program next year.
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Dr. MSK9 soon !

congrats !
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(08-24-2023, 07:50 AM)nyvrem Wrote: Dr. MSK9 soon !

congrats !

Thank you very much. Without the people on this forum, I may have never started the process.
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(08-24-2023, 05:53 AM)MSK9 Wrote:
(08-14-2023, 10:35 PM)AlvinG Wrote: Drinking and partying at their Caribbean school??? Haha. I’ve known a few to complete Hospital rotations while being pregnant. I highly doubt they’re too busy for a 3 minute update… 
Medical school is challenging, but you very much still do have a life.

You might be surprised. Nonetheless, I'm still around. Been crazy busy with clerkships but things are good. Hectic, but good. Students are only on the island for the first two years. Years 3 and 4 are Stateside or in the UK (depending on preference) for clinical clerkships. I apologize for missing a bunch of new posts; been trying to keep my eye on the prize. I finish the program next year.
Ohhhh snap!!! What a freaking legend! I’m so proud of you, and I’m happy that you’re kicking this things butt. There’s no doubt that a Caribbean is extremely challenging to make work, extremely small success rate. I’m crazy proud of you! You’ll be a Doctor soon enough, at this point it’s in your blood.

Are you planning on practicing in the UK? If so, do you have to match into a residency like the US does? I’m not too familiar on that process.
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(08-27-2023, 12:24 AM)AlvinG Wrote: Ohhhh snap!!! What a freaking legend! I’m so proud of you, and I’m happy that you’re kicking this things butt. There’s no doubt that a Caribbean is extremely challenging to make work, extremely small success rate. I’m crazy proud of you! You’ll be a Doctor soon enough, at this point it’s in your blood.

Are you planning on practicing in the UK? If so, do you have to match into a residency like the US does? I’m not too familiar on that process.

Thank you very much. The Caribbean route is tough but there’s a lot of bad info out there about it.. especially on sites like the Student Doctor Network, where the population pretends that only people who couldn’t cut it academically go there (3.9 undergrad science GPA here, for example). A lot of the statistics coming out of NMRP are skewed by way of their aggregation techniques. 

For example, IMG students from the US matching back to the US have an extremely match rate. IMG students from outside the US (excluding Canada) have a more difficult time, and often due to J-1 visa issue acceptance at the programs they apply to. The two subgroups are calculated together, along with IMG graduates who are going back to their home countries to train/practice. In other words, didn’t match because they didn’t apply. 

We all have to take and pass the same USMLE board exams to advance through medical school. 

The “big four” schools: St. G, Ross, Saba and AUC don’t typically have issues with the match and the few that do, end up getting jobs outside the match (The SOAP or the ‘Scramble’). In fact, the system I’m currently at has many, many AUC grads working as attendings. I can’t speak on the other schools, but St. G’s grads are matching into more competitive programs all the time. Neurosurgery included. 

I’ll be practicing in the US, where I’m from and currently am doing clerkships.
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