Medical Can I transfer to from US to German medical school or do my residency in Germany?

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I am a medical student in the United States, I will be starting my 2nd year (of 4 total for a US MD). My fiancé is from Eastern Europe and was applying to have her nursing license accepted in Germany and the US and it appears that the Germany route will be quickest for her. (Maybe as soon as next year). Now I have been looking into possibly doing residency in Germany after my 4th year (a possibility, not for certain) but it just came to me that maybe I could transfer to a German medical school...I understand that B2/C1 requirements must be met...but would it be possible to transfer from US-> Germany ? And secondly, would you happen to know what year I may be placed in? In the US , years 3 & 4 are all clinical years.
Danke in advance!

Are you or your spouse a German citizen? Where is her nursing training/degree from if she's applying for licenses in both the US AND Germany and whereas the Germany license would come through faster at 1 year long?

It's very unlikely I'd imagine. Transfers in med school (at least in the US) are pretty rare. Not to mention their system is different. In Germany, medical school begins after high school and is 6 years long instead of after 4 years of college for a total of 8 here.

As for doing residency there - that is also unlikely due to the differences in training and licensure differences. On the US side, you would not have even taken step 3 upon graduation, and thus would not be license, and would not have anything equivalent.

As for working there... you can't even start the process unless you have a concrete job offer to work there as a practicing physician. It's certainly not impossible to work there after all of this is done and with an offer, but the transfer and residency don't seem likely without starting over.

 

[lord999]

Well, it's unlikely that you can. Have you taken the Arbitur, is your German at level? Even so, you might not be able to transfer due to the different curriculum involved. You chose medicine, and in some respects, the career takes precedence. This is one of those cases.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Is your goal to practice in the US? Then stay in the US, or else you'll ultimately be considered a foreign medical graduate, no different from Caribbean school graduates, and your journey will be unnecessarily difficult. (In addition to everything mentioned in previous advice.)