HELLO TO EVERYBODY


IM PLANNING TO START MEDICAL SCHOOL AT XOCHICALCO UNIV. IN MEXICO
THIS AUGUST. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME SOMETHING ABOUT THE PLACE? IVE NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE AND IM A LITTLE NERVOUS. ANY INFO YOU CAN GIVE WILL BE VERY APPRECIATED.
THANKS.
mtmdfan.

Which campus?

hello

ENSENADA CAMPUS.

nope
but I am sure that
if it a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
it is good

I attended the Ensenada Campus of C.E.U. Xochicalco from 1985-1989, did a 5th yr rotating internship at ISSSTECALI in Tijuana and a 6th yr Social Service in Sonora.
I passed the ECFMG and FLEX and the 1st try, did FP residency in NYC and have worked in Florida for 10 years. I worked my ass off, didn't go to night clubs and leaned to speak Spanish extremely well.

I attended the Ensenada Campus of C.E.U. Xochicalco from 1985-1989, did a 5th yr rotating internship at ISSSTECALI in Tijuana and a 6th yr Social Service in Sonora.
I passed the ECFMG and FLEX and the 1st try, did FP residency in NYC and have worked in Florida for 10 years. I worked my ass off, didn't go to night clubs and learned to speak Spanish Extremely well.

The medical text books are essentially the same ones used in the US. You simply need to read and learn them all from cover to cover. You can not depend on professors to prepare you, spoon fed, to pass the USMLE. Do not assume that becase you are able to earn perfect scores on exams in a foreign school, that you will pass the USMLE. In fact, I recommend taking the Stanley Kaplan review course in San Diego after completion of the 2nd academic year and then sitting immediately for Part1. Do not wait to take part1 2 years later after completion of the 4th year of clinical rotations. Get an apartment close to school and share with a serious spanish speaking student. There are plenty of rentals besides the ones the school has next door if yo speak enough spanish to read and inquire in the local classifieds.

do not go. you will have many problems especially if you do not speak spanish. make sure your documents are perfect. no class is in english. no class translation is available. you will have a very hard time.

There adminitration is centralized, that means that only one person or maybe two take all the decisions there, already been there. So take my word for it there a lot more cheaper and pro student universities than Xochicalco, they will extort you for money and will delay and make your life msierable if you are not on their good side. If you have any financial problem they will not help you out, basically you get the feeling is a "cash making" school, always with the "money upfront" attitude that bothers me. If you need to god to Mexico, stay with the UAG, Guadalajara. But if you can go to Ross or St George, just anywhere but there.

The problem is they are not a pro student school, tehy dont care for the problems of their students nor are they willing to help them out finishing the med degree. It is not like you are at a Univeristy in the States where you matter and officials are willing to help you out.