Advice needed

[Wounded Healer]

I am an IMG, I've applied psych residency this year. I am rejected for a visa that means I can't come to US to have an interview which automatically makes me ineligible for the match process...I had a few interviews and step3 exam, but those didn't help to get a visa. I feel so down and hopeless. Any suggestion or insight for my career that i can do outside the US for couple of years until these visa restrictions ends? Oh-btw having a residency in my home country is not an option due to politics. Thanks!

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[TexasPhysician]

Unfortunately, the longer you are out of medical school, the harder it is to get accepted into residency. If you can’t get a visa, I would start looking into continuing medicine in another country.

 

[zzsleepytinizz]

Unfortunately, the longer you are out of medical school, the harder it is to get accepted into residency. If you can’t get a visa, I would start looking into continuing medicine in another country.

Is this true? I am an anesthesiologist who wants to go back to do a psych residency.

 

[nitemagi]

Is this true? I am an anesthesiologist who wants to go back to do a psych residency.

I think he meant if you're out of medical school and not practicing/training.

 

[Wounded Healer]

Unfortunately, the longer you are out of medical school, the harder it is to get accepted into residency. If you can’t get a visa, I would start looking into continuing medicine in another country.

I have graduated in 2015,Not even a fresh grad What if I do some research or observerships outside the US until I can return to the US in few years? Is it still unlikely to get into residency in the US? I don't have the energy to have another set of exams like USMLE's in other countries. I really want to return to US, eventually. What advice you can give me to do to enrich my CV until the time I can return? Thanks!