Yes, Thrombom...thats what it is.
Well to be honest I SUCK at math. I struggled in grade 11 university level math last year and was relieved to find out that theres a school that doesn't require grade 12 advanced math lol
It might sound stupid I know but I guess I got carried away by the excitement you know. My friend came here for the summer and recommended the school to me (hes also a Canadian citizen)...
So now I'm confused....I can apply to that school this August OR go the community college route..
But isn't it true that IMG's get matched faster in US residency programs?
This might be one of those "suck it up" cases, I'm afraid.
If you want to practice in the US, your number 1 best option is to go to medical school here. Period. There is not a soul out there who would disagree with me (and if they do, they're wrong). Whether you're a foreign grad who went to med school in Australia, the Caribbean, India, Romania, or anywhere else in the world doesn't matter: you're a foreign grad. Some might argue that the Big 4 might have a slight leg up to some of the European/Asian med schools simply because they're somewhat better known here, but that's another argument. Either way, if you go to the Caribbean, you're committing yourself to years of living in extremely substandard conditions, a lot of trouble with clinical experiences third year (if you make it that far- there is HUGE attrition down there and a relatively small percentage actually make it to third year) and then a struggle to get a decent, non-primary care residency when you graduate. The Caribbean should be your LAST option in case EVERYTHING else doesn't work- meaning you've applied to US-MD and DO at least once, have done whatever you can to improve your app and applied again, and you STILL haven't gotten in. It's definitely not something you should be planning on doing when you're still in high school.
The BEST option is to stay in the US or Canada, go to a 4-year college, and apply to med school. Look, I wasn't great at math either. I went as far as pre-calc in high school and stopped there. In college, I took the most basic calc 1 and didn't exactly rock it. But I got through it. And so will you. If you go to community college, do some basic remedial math there and build up a good foundation, then take calc.
I concur with whomever said that you need to start getting used to not taking shortcuts, because there aren't any in this process. Any shortcut you come up with will only make your life way, way, WAY harder in the long-term, and trust me, you'll HATE yourself if you get to age 22 and you're in some high-attrition program in a third world country looking forward to struggling for any residency option you might have (incidentally, with more med schools opening up here in the next few years, by the time you're applying to residency, there will be WAY fewer spots for FMG's, since the US medical system is trying to make sure absolutely no FMG's can become residents)-- all because you were afraid of taking math when you were 17. DO NOT do that. If you're serious about medicine, then suck it up.
