Foreign Medical Schools

[Epohi]

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Is anyone an expert on accredited Foreign Medical schools?

I would really prefer traveling out-of-state to attend medical school, both for the experience and the opportunity to get out of my comfort zone.

1. Could anyone enlighten me on the accredited medical schools offshore that are compatible with California? (If/When I return home, I would just like to be reassured that my offshore degree was compatible with my home state)

2. Also, this may be a weird question, but are there any accredited medical schools in areas like New Zealand, Indonesia, or Vietnam?

 

[tantrum]

Is anyone an expert on accredited Foreign Medical schools?

I would really prefer traveling out-of-state to attend medical school, both for the experience and the opportunity to get out of my comfort zone.

1. Could anyone enlighten me on the accredited medical schools offshore that are compatible with California? (If/When I return home, I would just like to be reassured that my offshore degree was compatible with my home state)

2. Also, this may be a weird question, but are there any accredited medical schools in areas like New Zealand, Indonesia, or Vietnam?

There is no such thing as US accredited foreign school. Each state have their own criteria. As long as it is in IMED and on the list of California approved schools, this would not be a problem.
Here is a link of California approved foreign schools:
http://www.medbd.ca.gov/applicant/schools_recognized.html

 

[greens]

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[dragonfly99]

greens is right
there is some stigma attached to US people who go to med school abroad. People just aren't sure of the quality of the training, and also they assume the person couldn't get in to a US med school and thus went abroad.

Please reconsider. Go to a US school and then do some elective months abroad. You don't want to get in a bind trying to get back in the country to do residency. There's enough bureaucracy, etc. involved with getting your license after residency as well...you don't want to have to deal with explaining your foreign degree to every hospital and state medical licensing board you have to deal with in the future.

 

[rox]

Going to a med school abroad just makes your life harder later on.

 

[Dr.Millisevert]

On the other hand, if you don't really plan on going back to America, New Zealand and Australia are pretty good places to go to school and work. The training will teach you how to become a good and compassionate doctor, the hours as a junior doctor won't be as extreme as they are in America, and the pay as far as junior doctors go will be better, however, you won't make as much once all the training is finished.
New Zealand schools- University of Otago, University of Auckland (International intake around 4-8 students, 2008 price 56,000 and 53,000NZD respectively)

I agree with pretty much everything you've stated except you included Australia along with NZ in you comparison with salaries. Not only resident's salaries... but even after you're finished with your training many Australian docs are making quite a bit more than their American colleagues. NZ is a slightly different story. 👍