IMG Residency in New York State

[Cardiac Amyloidosis]

So I've heard about some '12 week rule' where if IMGs did more than 12 weeks of rotations outside of their medical schools home country, they can't do residency in the state of New York (except for a handful of the best Caribbean schools like SGU, Ross etc.).

Is this true? I'm having a hard time verifying this. I think it's pretty ridiculous since almost all Caribbean schools do their clerkships in the US. Why would they punish us for getting US experience?

(I just read that suicide thread about the New York city resident. I was worried about the city's cost of living, but the work load is really that bad?)

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[IMPD]

So I've heard about some '12 week rule' where if IMGs did more than 12 weeks of rotations outside of their medical schools home country, they can't do residency in the state of New York (except for a handful of the best Caribbean schools like SGU, Ross etc.).

Is this true? I'm having a hard time verifying this. I think it's pretty ridiculous since almost all Caribbean schools do their clerkships in the US. Why would they punish us for getting US experience?

(I just read that suicide thread about the New York city resident. I was worried about the city's cost of living, but the work load is really that bad?)

http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/med/medlic.htm

The rule, as I understand it, is designed as leverage against medical schools sending more students into NYC hospitals without getting NYSED approval.

 

[the argus]

Foreign medical students can't do more than 12 weeks of rotations at hospitals physically located in New York state that their school doesn't have a formal affiliation with in the eyes of the New York State Medical Board.

Foreign medical schools can have a list of hospitals in the state that they are formally affiliated with in the eyes of the New York State Medical Board, and their students can do unlimited rotations at those hospitals. That's how the Caribbean schools get around the rule. Each school has a specific list of hospitals that their students can rotate in. For any hospital not on this list, the student must apply for clearance for each rotation prior to starting the rotation. You will presumably get rejected if you've already done 12 weeks of unaffiliated rotations.

A foreign student can do as many rotations outside of New York State as they want, the rule only limits how many rotations they can do physically in New York state.

And I believe they are barred from licensure, not residency, but I'm not sure about that. But the NY Medical Board would presumably reject any application for rotations over 12 weeks anyway, so it probably wouldn't ever be an issue.

 

[Cardiac Amyloidosis]

Thank you guys so much!

 

[Psai]

(I just read that suicide thread about the New York city resident. I was worried about the city's cost of living, but the work load is really that bad?)

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[takeiteeaasy]

I have just caught wind of this law as well. I was completely caught off guard and am really hoping there's a loophole here.

I thought the law required that international medical students cannot complete more than 12 weeks in New York state. I am now reading that anyone who completed more than 12 weeks of clinical clerkships ANYWHERE outside of their own medical school country is INELIGIBLE to do residency training in New York State, with the exception of only a handful of schools.

If this is true, any international medical student (whose school is not on the exception list) who completed more than 12 weeks of rotations anywhere in the United States before graduation is ineligible to do residency in New York. I find this hard to believe, but now everything I'm reading points toward this being true.

Here are links referencing this rule:

http://officeofprofessions.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1340/kw/clerkship/related/1

http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/GME/documents/NYSED_Approved_Schools_12_week_rule.pdf

https://www.rochesterregional.org/f...ion-for-applicants/criteria-and-requirements/

https://medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu/neurology/education/faq

http://www.amc.edu/Academic/GME/programs/InternalMedicine/how_to_apply.cfm

http://medclerkships.com/new-york-states-12-week-clerkship-rule-explained/

http://www.usmle-forums.com/usce-cl...t-new-york-state-imgs-applying-residency.html

I have directly read the NY law and it does not seem as definitive as what the above websites are saying, but I am not a lawyer so I cannot be certain. I really hope there is some way around this. Anyone with insight, please inform us!