Hi all, please answer to me if anyone know procedures with IMG anesthesiologists in USA.
I am an an anesthesiologist from Europe and I would like to get lisence to work in USA.I am already in USA and live in Washington State.
Please tell me all about my future effort to be an lisence anesthesiologist here.Thank you!
Honestly?
Yes you need to clear the USMLE all steps. To get into a residency program it is necessary to not just pass you need to score the highest you can score because higher scores make it more likely to get in.
thanks a lot for clearing my doubt.
That would be ideal, but most people don't like to live in the middle of nowhere once they have options...
Do a 3-year NP program for foreign physicians at Florida International University (FIU)... That's probably your best shot to practice medicine in the US.
It's all going to come down to that Step score. And even then, it's a tight market for FMGs, but if you do well and apply very broadly, your chances are reasonably good.
Do you really have to do all the steps? I thought I recalled a upper year at my Canadian school say you just needed a pass for Step 1 in order to do a fellowship, good to know that you need all 3.
Apply to and match at a US internal medicine residency program. Then a 3 year internal medicine residency, followed by a 3 year general cardiology fellowship, followed by a 1 year interventional cardiology sub-fellowship. All these must be done in the US.
)
BTW - I was reading some of the detailed answers from the moderators - I sense them to be patient, tolerant, emotionally intelligent, thoughtful and above all non-judgmental. Great job guys and kudos. I have been to the infant stage of this website too - for years looked for answers to solve my predicament. It is all over the world - lack of a standardized medical education set up like those computer IT careers. My American child does not see the unfairness either - just step into my shoes and try to reason.
In favor of founders pursuit of happiness and equality - I am mustering to re-enter the medical profession. (There are adults changing careers and older professionals that get GED and who go on to accomplish their dreams, so why not?). When I say to folks - I am a doctor but not a doctor, I get told that I am not trying hard enough. Computer science grads migrate to the USA and with no board exams to prove their training, get to maintain government websites. I am resiliently entering middle age - Yet one mission that I could not accomplish - is the completion of my education (was once my chosen path - if ever I could get past the 'even as of today' myopic 7 years/attempt rules, etc.,
America is the only unique place that one can come to better their lot - the founding principle. If it were dog in the manger attitude at Ellis island, then we would not have been so enriched. The country needs more doctors, talent is available - yet the gatekeepers have bottle necked that - why?
Dear Members and/or SDN advisors: Kindly advise -
1. Can a FMG (FEP) who is ECFMG certified from 15 years back, apply to residency positions with those same credentials? What would be residency/ candidacy boosters - Steps retake? Externships? Obviously the 7 year requirement of USMLE Steps is long over. Can the once cleared Steps be re - taken afresh - 1,2 and thus later to Step 3 like a fresh candidate? Validity is addressed for CS and TOEFL in the ECFMG website. These are still the same uncertain blind steps to get back just to the ERAS and interviews stages. What is the feasibility? With a tight economy/Medicare, supply& demand for residencies, age, lapse of time ... know anyone who does this or do I quit- just forget about it - why even contemplate it in the current American medical system?
2. Is there somewhere in the US that I can do clinical post graduate training like say a paid masters clinical graduate program? That tuition paid process than getting a GME stipend, if it would certify me as an MD in three years, would allow me to work in remote/ rural countries/ back home too. Why is this not conceivable - hospitals can generate income from students paying for their GME just like MS/MBA tuition fees.
If to convey my thoughts with my back story - I have Standard ECFMG certification from 2001 (also cleared though not required - the new kid in the bloc - back then called - CSA). In 2001 -02, I applied to several residency programs through the new format called ERAS and other electronic tools that were to soon change the residency application procedures (there were programs in 2002 not yet into ERAS - that I mailed 20 pages of application in a yellow manila envelope as well). I was at the wrong time/space - because FMG- ERAS opened up international applications, flooding the program directors files. I interviewed but did not make it that year even while living in the US and having clinical exposure here, fluency etc.,. In the years that followed, life caught up with me and that made it impossible to apply (divorce, etc.,) and I went on to be a productive US naturalized citizen in another career field. Having put my only kid through elite STEM college and into the workforce, my regret now is that I should have kept applying to residency openings. I sense flashback when I read other members questions - and surely they might be fast forwarding their thoughts too about their future 'back story' - but not to discourage anyone here. My life resume is excellent for resilience and strength of character - like the wild west pioneers but unrecognized for effort! So keep plugging kids
