Does this diploma work?

[FaddyAcids]

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My country requires one year of training after graduation from medical school in order to practice medicine and get my final diploma. I want to apply for a residency program in the states without taking this year and I can only have a certificate which states that I graduated but I am not authorised to practice medicine unless I finish this year of training.
If all USMLE steps are done, does this temporary diploma work to be ECFMG certified??

 

[Annette]

Try looking for 5th pathway programs. They are residency programs that take physicians who are required to do a year of training/social service before getting their diploma.

 

[FaddyAcids]

But I think the 5th Pathway programs requires that I have completed the undergraduate studies (premedicine) in the US, right?

 

[Winged Scapula]

But I think the 5th Pathway programs requires that I have completed the undergraduate studies (premedicine) in the US, right?

True - according to the AMA web site:

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/9306.html

It does say you have to be a citizen, a resident alien or a Canadian as well.

I am not aware of any other paths into a US residency without the final diploma you need for ECFMG certification.

 

[f_w]

Contact ECFMG. They know exactly what they want from each country.

In 1998, the requirements where changed. It used to be that you had to be eligible to practice in your home country. In 1998 they changed it to 'graduated from a medical school approved in the respective country'. This was in part to allow people from countries with onerous internship requirements (in some places you have to wait years until you can get one of the officially approved internship slots) to come to the US whether they fullfilled this required internship or not.