International Internship/Residency

[wwerkh1]

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Does anyone have any experience in completing their internship/residency overseas, specifically in a third world country? I'm not worried about the money and want to avoid any side-trailed discussions pertaining to international medicine and its pros/cons as it seems to have gotten plenty of coverage in similar threads.

I am simply interested in transferable years (to US residency) and the clout that overseas medical missions, religious or non, may or may not have when trying to find work when/if I return to the US.

Thanks in advance!

 

[gutonc]

Does anyone have any experience in completing their internship/residency overseas, specifically in a third world country? I'm not worried about the money and want to avoid any side-trailed discussions pertaining to international medicine and its pros/cons as it seems to have gotten plenty of coverage in similar threads.

I am simply interested in transferable years (to US residency) and the clout that overseas medical missions, religious or non, may or may not have when trying to find work when/if I return to the US.

Thanks in advance!

You will get no credit in the US for any training done overseas. In fact, you will make matching more difficult for yourself because you will be further out from graduation which is a potential red flag for some programs. As much as you might think you'll be "better" after a year or 3 of training elsewhere, PDs see it as having to break your old/bad habits learned in a different system and retrain you in the US system. It's much easier to just start with fresh, new grad meat from their POV.

If you really want to go overseas, do a generalist-type of residency (FM, EM, Gen Surg) and then work with or for some sort of medical NGO.

 

[Neuronix]

Some of the TYs (the one I'm at for example) allow for a one month away elective. The program I'm at has a program option to spend a month working in Ecuador in a primary care setting.