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[Mkif586]

How do IMGs match into top residency programs?
Harder and harder every year...
I would compare this with winning a lottery, some people do, 99.99999999% do not.

 

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Probably cause they were better than the other applicants

 

[FutureSurgical]

For Harvard Derm, that 1 “IMG” is from Israel, which would place him in the FMG category. FMGs are not held to the same standards as IMGs, which are usually American-born students that went abroad.

 

[Prehealth1011]

Connections
Years of experience in the field
Better applicant than us
Option of keep practicing in their own country --> ability to apply every year with no 300k debt holding them down. I know a FMG who matched into IM 10 years after graduating. Granted it's not the best program or the most competitive speciality, but she basically applied every year until she got something.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Sorry you're right! That would be the case for a lot of these! The distinction between IMG vs FMG slipped my mind. But don't foreign IMGs generally have a harder time?

The FMG's that match elite residency programs typically come from elite foreign schools, are already attendings in that field, have a mountain of publications, did multiple years of research in the department they matched at, or a variety of other factors.