Need to make a decision. I have 2 university degree. I've been a year without studying. Finally achieve passing mcat. My dream is to study medicine in my country, puerto rico, but would have to wait another year over. I need to decide wait and make my dream or go to study in mexico, where i can start now. Please help me to make a decision. I have 24 years and i don't know if waiting another year is a good idea. Benefits of stay in my country is that it is cheaper and not have to do a year of residency required to the student graduated of mexico to work in united state. Please help me, just have a few days to take a decision.
I need to take a important decision!!..help!!
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What do you have to get to pass the MCAT these days?
I was wondering when I missed Puerto Rico becoming it's own country... 😉
Anyway, OP...if I read your post correctly, you're a US citizen (from PR) trying to decide between a) starting med school in Mexico now or b) applying for med school in the US. We'd need more details about your GPA, degrees, MCAT score and so on to get an idea of how competitive you'd be for a US medical school...but if you are competitive for a US school, I'd say that would be the better option if your ultimate goal is to practice medicine in the US.
To practice in the US you need to complete a residency training program after medical school, and it's much harder to get into a US residency if you're coming from a foreign school than it would be if you're coming from an American medical school...foreign grads (which you would be if you attend the Mexican school) have a harder time passing the USMLEs and also usually have to do additional clinical rotations in the US after medical school to be considered for residency, so it would likely take you as long (or longer) to become a doctor in Puerto Rico if you went the Mexico route than if you went to a US medical school.
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