IMG friendly NY/NJ programs?

[rahulb]

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4th year IMG (US citizen), no gaps or breaks in education (started sep 07, graduating may 11), 99s on steps, all As in 3rd/4th year so far

i'm completely unfamiliar with this ERAS deal and don't know which programs i can consider within my reach

help plox 😍

 

[bingousmle]

hey congrats on your awesome scores.. i think you have a wider scope for your choice of programs to apply since you are in a US med school and you are a citizen. so you can concentrate on other programs equally as well..bests.

 

[Winged Scapula]

hey congrats on your awesome scores.. i think you have a wider scope for your choice of programs to apply since you are in a US med school and you are a citizen. so you can concentrate on other programs equally as well..bests.

The poster is NOT in a US medical school; hence his question.

 

[rahulb]

was born and raised in america but went to a caribbean school

i understand that my academic performance might negate some of the stigma surrounding me attending an off-shore school, but i don't know exactly what tier of programs i can consider within my grasp.

basically other US citizens who did well in the carib and matched into surgery can provide me the best input.

thanks

 

[Winged Scapula]

was born and raised in america but went to a caribbean school

i understand that my academic performance might negate some of the stigma surrounding me attending an off-shore school, but i don't know exactly what tier of programs i can consider within my grasp.

basically other US citizens who did well in the carib and matched into surgery can provide me the best input.

thanks

Please read the FAQ where we can't/don't provide information on what your chances are (WAMC); it is simply too difficult to assess applications because of the number of factors involved. Apply to every program where you think you might want to live, ask senior students when you are doing rotations and residents what programs they liked. Check websites to see if there are any FMGs/IMGs on the resident rosters.

The USMLE scores will certainly be a benefit, but grades are a wash - faculty know that there is little standard for these.

 

[rahulb]

thank you

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[SLUser11]

i understand that my academic performance might negate some of the stigma surrounding me attending an off-shore school....

Some of the stigma, maybe....but not much.....Nothing you can do would truly negate that stigma.

Whether it's fair or not, you'll play second fiddle in the match to US allopathic students with much less impressive USMLE scores.

 

[thedrjojo]

4th year IMG (US citizen), no gaps or breaks in education (started sep 07, graduating may 11), 99s on steps, all As in 3rd/4th year so far

i'm completely unfamiliar with this ERAS deal and don't know which programs i can consider within my reach

help plox 😍

2 digit step scores are essentially meaningless... 3 digit scores are what matters.

As far as NJ/NY programs, for categorical spot, cross pretty much any academic center off your list. That includes Columbia, Cornell, Sinai, NYU, Einstein, Downstate, UMDNJ-NJMS, UMDNJ-RWJ (those were the ones I interviewed at, and at almost all mentioned they almost universally only consider US Allopathic students for the categorical spots). St. Barnabas is very USIMG 'friendly', in that almost all the residents are SGU grads from what I believe. Figures that it is a SGU hospital, many SGU attendings, and is a malignant program that allopathic students have learned to stay away from. This is almost all heresay (my school, it is a secondary option of a rotation and I have yet to know a student who truely enjoyed the experience or thought it was a good program). Morristown has a few USIMG's, but I believe most were prelims then categoricals. Bronx-Lebanon, Lenox Hill, Manhatten Beth Isreal, before it closed down St. Vincent's were all more IMG friendly from what I've heard. I can't comment on anything else outside of the city.

Won't get into USIMG vs allopathic, the fairness of how comparisons are, etc. as that was not the question possed. My residency (UMDNJ-NJMS) has a few midlevels and seniors who are FMG's or USIMG's, however it has been 3 years since they have taken any non allopathic as a categorical, and they have a stated mission of doing that...