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[beckwest7]

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Hello everyone,
I have a question and hope you guys can answer me:
my case: I'm an international student who want to go to medical school, psychiatry major. I heard that international student cannot study this major. Is it true?
and where can I find more information about psychiatry major?
thanx u.
proud to be one of you.

 

[erg923]

There is no "major" in medical school. All psychiatrists have to complete general medical school curriculums and rotations in various medical specialties during medical school. However, if your interests lie in psychiatry from the get go, you always have the option of getting involved with those faculty doing resesrch in psychiatry, making your interests known early on, and choosing the appropriate elective rotations during med school (i.e., psych, child psych, FM, etc). This will give you some good experience and help prepare you for a psychiatry residency. You will not really "dig in" and specialize until your residency. Many international medical school students go into psychiatry for residency, nothing forbids this. However, there are certain programs that are more "friendly" towards these applicants than others. But I will leave that discussion to other medical students and psychiatry residents on this board.