09-21-2024, 10:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-21-2024, 11:17 AM by Stonybeach.)
After being accepted into a Caribbean medical school, an Army buddy talked me out of it, and I went the nurse practitioner route. Sadly, I have lost two friends to suicide who graduated from Caribbean medical school and Mexican Medical School and never obtained a medical residency. They owed a lot of money and viewed themselves as a failure. It breaks my heart.
Look, I get it; you want to be a physician, and no US or Canadian medical school will accept you, so you go foreign. I'm simply encouraging anyone exploring this pathway to examine all their options and have a backup plan, up to and including being content as a foreign physician in the country where you obtained your MD. I say this because it says a lot about the medical school if their host country won't allow their graduates to practice in that country!
There are so many options now in the US that may appeal to someone who can't get accepted into an MD or DO school. Podiatry, Dentistry, Optometry, Pharmacy, Naturopathic, Physician Assistant, Nursing, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Anesthetist, Anesthesiology Assistant, Chiropractic, Paramedic, Rad Tech, Physiologist, Psychologist, Mental Health Counselor, and other allied health professions.
Note: Listing does not imply any order of preference or importance. They are all vital! I also mentioned Canadian schools with US schools because there appear to be a lot of US States that accept Canadian medical and nursing credentials with much less scrutiny than other foreign countries. Not sure if Canada reciprocates?
Look, I get it; you want to be a physician, and no US or Canadian medical school will accept you, so you go foreign. I'm simply encouraging anyone exploring this pathway to examine all their options and have a backup plan, up to and including being content as a foreign physician in the country where you obtained your MD. I say this because it says a lot about the medical school if their host country won't allow their graduates to practice in that country!
There are so many options now in the US that may appeal to someone who can't get accepted into an MD or DO school. Podiatry, Dentistry, Optometry, Pharmacy, Naturopathic, Physician Assistant, Nursing, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Anesthetist, Anesthesiology Assistant, Chiropractic, Paramedic, Rad Tech, Physiologist, Psychologist, Mental Health Counselor, and other allied health professions.
Note: Listing does not imply any order of preference or importance. They are all vital! I also mentioned Canadian schools with US schools because there appear to be a lot of US States that accept Canadian medical and nursing credentials with much less scrutiny than other foreign countries. Not sure if Canada reciprocates?
![[-]](https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/images/collapse.png)
