No, you can't. The biggest thing you need to be careful with are the school rankings there. They are actually tailored and government controlled. I lived in China for 3 years and worked with Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and the dean there is actually a family friend. (wife is from china)
Zhejiang's Medical school is actually a lot better than both of Shanghai's but you'll see it appears that Shanghai is better...trust me...it is not! Wenzhou is even worse but it appears as a pretty good school. The doctors that come out of Wenzhou actually tell patients who have cyst, depending on the location (ie: ovaries, abdomen) to wait until it pops, they can save money that way instead of having surgery....WHAT!
Good schools would be the Beijing's Schools, mainly because they have foreign teachers teaching in the University but Zhejiang is great too because it has the international clinic. These are doctors that come in from the US, they are on rotation so come over and stay anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months, teach the doctors there, deal with foreigners and teach the mbbs students hands on. So you can get classroom foreign doctors or clinic/hands on foreign doctors...I'd take Zhejiang. And they are doing a lot of research atm with stem cells. There Chinese doctors that work in the international clinic are pretty good as well. My wifes OBGYN when she got pregnant there graduated from Zhejiang and then did an 8 year residency at Georgetown, so some of them are quite qualified. An Hui is also not so bad, I met a great doctor from An Hui but there Surgical area is deeply lacking. It takes them 2 hours longer to do a knee replacement than in the states.
The biggest issue with going to one of these MBBS programs is that they aren't worth much when you return to the US. You are still required to pass the USMLE to practice in the states and even when you do, are still not granted the title of MD. Also, the laws dealing with medication are quite different. Some of the doctors from the US at the international clinic had trouble prescribing medications to patients because the Chinese government had outlawed them in the country. And even drugs that are similar get prescribed and different times and doses. When my brother-in-law got TB, the way they administered the medication was different and the US doctor told him to do 1 thing, the Chinese doctor had him on 6 different medications, 3 times a day for the next year. I was amazed. Also, the outlawed medications, ultimately meaning, those medicines never get taught to those in Chinese schools because they will never be using them anyway. Most schools claim they have USMLE preparation but they actually don't. They just hand you over to Kaplan and you have to purchase everything yourself, self study it and pass the exam. Most Chinese Dr.'s I've talked to find the USMLE extremely difficult to pass, so don't bother.
It's not that they are idiots, it's just that the classes are taught differently. When you get into Med School in the states, the teachers want you to succeed and teach you in a way to cover that information, it isn't quite the same overseas and with good reason. Why everything needed in the USMLE if they don't need everything in it to be doctors and the government excludes certain drugs from it anyways. So make sure you take the time to go over there before you take that step. Most of the MBBS students are from India and Africa, only 3 US students in the program last year, not sure if they stayed.
A direct quote from a very good Chinese friend of mine who is a Dr. there that graduated from Anhui, "American Residents are Chinese Attending".
