Hello. I have just found out I have been accepted to medical school in England. I would like to practice in America once I have graduated. Provided I can pass all the tests OK, and am happy working in a non-competitive residency, can british foreign medical graduates usually be accepted into American culture and are still viewed with the same respect that an American graduate is? By the way, I am British, so I have not applied to American medical schools and could not afford to anyway.

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A UK degree is fine.

You can most likely even get a competitive residency if you have good USMLE scores. If you go to oxbridge, even better.

Maybe you could do some overseas electives in the US during your ultimate year.

Question is when would you sit for your USMLE exams. Step 1 and 2ck can be taken on computer anywhere in the world, but step 2cs can only be taken in Philadelphia, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.

The only tricky thing would be how to go from your ultimate year to your intern year without a gap.

My residency program will have a graduate from Sheffield.

My residency program will have a graduate from Sheffield.


What residency program are you at? PM me if you don't want to post it? I'd be really curious to see how a fresh UK grad matches up against fresh US grads (often UK doctors coming across have a few years postgrad clinical experience and then obviously do really well in US)

waiting, r u gonna go to the US to practice?

Nope, I thought about it last year but after weighing pros and cons decided UK was better option.