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Hi,
Has anyone heard of Avalon University School of Medicine? It's a Caribbean medical school located in Curacao. One of my relatives goes here and everyone in my family thinks that he's found a loophole in becoming a US doctor. This distant cousin of mine came to this school fresh out of 12th grade (2nd PUC, he's from India) 4 years ago. He was on the island for the first 2 years (probably studying basic bio, chem etc.). The third year he took the USLME step 1 and failed twice. So in this past year he went back to India to study for step 1 again and apparently he passed with a 240. So now next year he's coming to the US for clinical rotations and then after that he's going to try to get matched. He wants to become a surgeon lmao.
Is that all it takes to become a doctor? Why are WE struggling so much? Why do WE have to take gap years, and do research, and take the MCAT, and do non-clinical volunteering? IF all it takes to become a doctor is cram for the USMLE step 1?
Can someone please give me a good comeback for when my family calls me stupid for becoming a doctor the normal way.
Has anyone heard of Avalon University School of Medicine? It's a Caribbean medical school located in Curacao. One of my relatives goes here and everyone in my family thinks that he's found a loophole in becoming a US doctor. This distant cousin of mine came to this school fresh out of 12th grade (2nd PUC, he's from India) 4 years ago. He was on the island for the first 2 years (probably studying basic bio, chem etc.). The third year he took the USLME step 1 and failed twice. So in this past year he went back to India to study for step 1 again and apparently he passed with a 240. So now next year he's coming to the US for clinical rotations and then after that he's going to try to get matched. He wants to become a surgeon lmao.
Is that all it takes to become a doctor? Why are WE struggling so much? Why do WE have to take gap years, and do research, and take the MCAT, and do non-clinical volunteering? IF all it takes to become a doctor is cram for the USMLE step 1?
Can someone please give me a good comeback for when my family calls me stupid for becoming a doctor the normal way.
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