Chiming in for my buddy here.
OP the Caribbean as well as many other medical schools will give you the same if not better education in their programs. Performing well in medical school is up to you. Caribbean schools are known for large class sizes of students who were mainly rejected from MD programs, to be frankly honest, because they were Asian/white and their GPA/MCAT wasn't high enough for their race. Typically each school produces 500-1000 physicians per year and sees a little over an 80% match rate. This number may change as DO and MD residency programs merge but that is total different. If you make connections during your clinical years, show up on time, and prove to be better than everyone else, you will succeed.
We just took in an SGU graduate for neurosurgery in GWU last fall. 2 students were offered the position. None of the DO's made it through. I wouldn't trust them to operate on a cadaver let alone a human being.
You will notice that the Osteopathic medical field is a group of individuals very protective over their identity and education trying to cover up for their short comings and not making it into medical school, simply because they weren't cut out to do the job right. Remember DO schools until last year were taking in 24 MCATS and substandard GPA's which was around the same average for the Caribbean upper tiers, SGU, Ross, and AUC.
Your grades do not matter too much when making the decision to apply to medical school in the Caribbean but your desire to do well, better than your classmates, and better than those people who took your admissions spots in the states is up to you. Are you willing to work hard and see your hard work pay off? Or are you a softy who is going to take the easy route, DO, and be offered a substandard education? Few esteemed hospitals will dispatch their DO employees abroad for conferences to present on a topic that the hospital has been researching on, simply because the world knows, DO <<<<<<<MD. In the states there is a Trump concept in some programs where they put American medical students first but there are plenty of programs that will take you. UCLA took a SGU grad for general surgery who was a poor performer in his undergrad years and his GPA and MCAT lagged. Like I said it is up to you. Medical school is not hard, nor is the USMLE, its just a lot of information to process.
I currently work in the field of neurosurgery, though my story is a little different, I grew up in the African subcontinent, completed my medical education there, and my neurosurgery residency, and my degree was not recognized in the states so I received my degree from Ross as well and was able to enter my program. Between my private clinic I make a larger income than Goro and all of his fake accounts he uses to back up his fake butt combined. Somewhere in the 1.2 million dollar range between private practice and faculty teaching.
My advice to you is apply to American programs, if you don't get in, don't waste your time, just go Caribbean work hard, and prove the medical schools wrong, that they made a mistake by not selecting you.
My friend certainly did. People get jealous over income disparity and their own self consciousness of their shortcomings in life and not being as successful so they will make up things as you can see the several accounts above are doing so. Notice how they are allowed to spew out hatred words like "*****, bitch, etc etc" and not get banned on the forums? That's a classic example of a child who was bullied in school and they finally have a chance to feel powerful on an internet forum hiding behind a 2 inch thick monitor and just hit the mute button/ban button when someone says something that doesn't work for them.
Do you want to take advice from a loser like that?
My friend has given you sound advice, and he has the income to prove it. Do a little digging here and there on residency match lists and youll find what he says is true.
Many students do not try hard in the Caribbean and will blame others for their own faults and make the programs look bad.
Goro, Gonnif,
LizzyM, and all the other "Administrators" are just the same SDN employee sitting behind a computer answering messages all day. They will argue otherwise to protect their identity of being an internet bully, who probably has to take dozens of pills to control their bipolar disorder. Its the same middle aged unemployed man making a fantasy about himself and repeating useless information.
Anyway as my friend got banned no doubt I will too, so this is my last post here, glad I could reach out to you. There are thousands of MDs from the Caribbean who are successful, and are Medical Doctors. Goodluck to you OP, remember to evaluate your sources.
Don't ever let a joke of a human being like Goro tell you otherwise.
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