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just want to point out that USMLE step 1 is pass fail only now...so going to Ross is an even poorer decision, as residencies will tilt more to name brand schools than ever before without the step 1 score as an equalizer.
>7000 IMGs start residency in the US every year. The vast majority of these IMGs are not outcompeting US grads for residency positions. They are matching because the US graduate medical education system requires >7000 more trainees to start every year than the US undergraduate medical system produces.I’d really caution people against Caribbean schools. The only thing that would make them competitive in the past was a very strong Step 1 (and otherwise unblemished record). That’s true of all FMGs. But now with step 1 being p/f, and with the merger with DO, I would say it’ll be very difficult to stay competitive.
The fact that step 1 is now pass/fail in no way changes these numbers. It's not like IMGs are pass/fail but will now be competing against people that have step 1 scores. Residency programs will have to find new criteria for evaluating people, but everyone will still ultimately be judged on the same criteria as everyone else.
And news flash, most residency programs already use where you graduated from medical school as a MAJOR factor in how they evaluate applicants. Just because step 1 is pass/fail does not mean that programs that draw from medical schools like harvard, hopkins, and penn are all of a sudden going to start taking grads from drexel and east tennessee state. Caribbean grads will continue to be competitive for the same tier of residency programs they always have been.