NO US clinical experience
Started by Ice dude
The conventional wisdom is that yes, it will hurt you.
While USCE helps you learn about how a US hospital and medical education works, the major benefit is to obtain letters of recommendation about your clinical skills from US faculty. Many US faculty will not recognize letters from foreign faculty when evaluating your residency application.
If you have already graduated from medical school, then you are not eligible for US electives. About all that is available are research positions or observerships in which you have no clinical contact with patients.
However, many applicants have no USCE and still manage to match. As noted above, if you have already graduated from medical school, then you have little option but to do well on the USMLEs and try to get some US experience, even if it isn't clinical.
While USCE helps you learn about how a US hospital and medical education works, the major benefit is to obtain letters of recommendation about your clinical skills from US faculty. Many US faculty will not recognize letters from foreign faculty when evaluating your residency application.
If you have already graduated from medical school, then you are not eligible for US electives. About all that is available are research positions or observerships in which you have no clinical contact with patients.
However, many applicants have no USCE and still manage to match. As noted above, if you have already graduated from medical school, then you have little option but to do well on the USMLEs and try to get some US experience, even if it isn't clinical.
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As the name implies, you watch medical care being provided.
IMHO, these are worthless and a waste of your time. The whole point, for most IMGs, of US rotations is to get a letter of recommendation from US physicians attesting to your clinical skills. If all you do is watch someone do some doctoring, how can they possibly assess that?
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