Hey,
there has already been some similar posts like this one, but still I am bit lost, my situation is just a bit different since I never was an eager student knowing from my fetus times that I want to end up in emergency and working in the US, so my CV is not very outstanding and I would really appreciate some advice and your opinion....
I am an IMG from Europe, with one year+ of experience in ED (working independently in the ER and outside in the field-yes we can do that here in Europe), and one very good LOR. But on the other hand I have no research experience, no publications and have a quite bad grade average from the first years. The big problem in my CV is going to be a really big gap from medicine, when I will finish with my USMLE step 1, I will be out of medicine for almost 3 years. Of course I am planning to find one or two observerships if I can and get some US LORs, but still I am bit skeptical about getting a EM residency in US.
Does anyone have a good advice how to get that extra points to get into residency(except scoring high on USMLE and get some more LORs)? I am moving back to US in October and then planning to start studying for USMLE, find and do the observerships if I can and then when I finish with everything necessary apply to EM programs. Is there even a chance (being an IMG with no publications/research) of getting and EM residency?
Is there anything I could do, before I finish with USMLE, that would help me later with getting an observership, matching...?
Thanks for your help!
there has already been some similar posts like this one, but still I am bit lost, my situation is just a bit different since I never was an eager student knowing from my fetus times that I want to end up in emergency and working in the US, so my CV is not very outstanding and I would really appreciate some advice and your opinion....
I am an IMG from Europe, with one year+ of experience in ED (working independently in the ER and outside in the field-yes we can do that here in Europe), and one very good LOR. But on the other hand I have no research experience, no publications and have a quite bad grade average from the first years. The big problem in my CV is going to be a really big gap from medicine, when I will finish with my USMLE step 1, I will be out of medicine for almost 3 years. Of course I am planning to find one or two observerships if I can and get some US LORs, but still I am bit skeptical about getting a EM residency in US.
Does anyone have a good advice how to get that extra points to get into residency(except scoring high on USMLE and get some more LORs)? I am moving back to US in October and then planning to start studying for USMLE, find and do the observerships if I can and then when I finish with everything necessary apply to EM programs. Is there even a chance (being an IMG with no publications/research) of getting and EM residency?
Is there anything I could do, before I finish with USMLE, that would help me later with getting an observership, matching...?
Thanks for your help!