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[unimed]

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🙂 Hello to everybody, I'm a medical student from Italy.
This is my 5-Th year (the med school is about 6years) of med school, and I'm very interested on USMLE. And doing the residency in USA.

I'm searching info, on usmle prep, and the goal that one must reach for getting the match, i mean what should be the usmle point for entering in a good residency hospital.
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Waiting for a good council from Usmle takers.
Thank in advance, bye from spaghetti land.

 

[Osteopathology]

A. Define 'good'
B. Any insight as to where you are looking?
C. What field of medicine?

Osteopathology

 

[unimed]

Dear Osteopathology, thanks for your reply,

Well, for a good residency hospital i mean for example i have heard that the top are John Hopkins, Mayo clinic, brown university.

and I'm interested on Cardiology or Endocrinology,

well i wont also mention that I'm a international medical student how much are my probabilities if i get a good score (witch i don't know how much must be) to enter in this prestigious residency programme.

Waiting for your answer, thanks in advance.

 

[Raggaman]

I know a bunch of FMGs and they pretty much start at the bottom of the pile- not all, but most. The local grads get all the "good" residencies and the FMGs get teh left over. This shouldnt discourage you because nto everyone has teh same experience. Good luck

 

[doctorp82]

While cardiology is competitive (maybe Endocrine is too, not sure), getting into general internal medicine isn't, depending on where you go. You should shoot for a pretty high board score on step 1 for something like Mayo or Johns Hopkins even for general medicine...maybe around 235-240 range to keep a competitive subspecialty like card open.

I think even if you don't go to one of those for internal medicine, but go to a lesser tier US residency program for internal medicine, you could become more competitive with subsequent good scores on step 2 and step 3, and spend some time doing research or other projects in the field you're interested in. The research will not only boost your CV but help you start building networking contacts in the field who can help you get into those competitive residencies.

http://www.nrmp.org/matchoutcomes.pdf

The document link above is to match data from 2005. Since cardiology and endocrinology are fellowships of internal medicine and not match-program specialties, they aren't listed, but you can look at data for internal medicine.

You might also want to post your question in one of the other forums. Try the General Residency Forum or ERAS and NRMP forum, or a mod can move this there for you.

 

[unimed]

Thanks to both of you.