Are Foreign medical schools now a really bad idea?

by steto19 (Posted Thu Jun 22, 2017 6:45 pm) Hey so I just finished med school in Argentina. Personally, I feel very prepared and have shown skills and knowledge on several ocassions already. The system here is different than in the US. Here we don't need MCAT, as a matter of fact you don't need anything. Everybody gets in but from the first moment until you are done (7 years) it is a non stop filter. Only a very low percentage of the people who initiated with me finished me school (like 20%). I know this differs from many other places where getting it is harder but the dropout rate is low.Again I don't feel as if I am at any disadvantage. I took the step 1 and did relatively well, feeling that I did not have to complement too much what we learned (just needed to orient it more towards what the steps focus on). Now days I gave up on the US and am planning to move to Spain, and there too there is a hefty exam to match into residencies that I need to take. Seeing some of the questions repeated for that exam (it's called the MIR) has also led me to conclude that overall I had a good medical education.So in summary, no I don't think foreign medical schools are a bad idea. I think it is a harder route if you want to practice in the US, since it definitely is a road less traveled. Again it worked out for me and I finished med school with no debt (since studying here without enslaving yourself to debt is possible since it is cheap in the private unis and free in the public ones).Thi...
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