Post bac in Europe

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Ole_Toe

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Hey friends, has anybody here heard of someone completing a DIY or structured post bac overseas? I've been reading about Italy's english-language medical schools, and it looks like the first two years of study are equivalent to many post bac programs with courses in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and anatomy. This is probably too much of a niche, but I'm wondering if anyone has done their post bac overseas, if they had any hurdles in getting credits accepted, if they would recommend it, or have any advice.

Thanks for reading!

Toe

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If your goal is to come back to the US, this is not a good strategy, as it pretty much turns you into a foreign applicant, which trashes your odds completely.

Pick a few US med schools of interest and review their admissions policies. You'll probably see that taking the prereqs (as part of 60-90 semester hours) in the US is required. You'll probably see that you have to have foreign transcripts evaluated by a 3rd party (expensive, grade conversions never favor the student). And if you dig around, you'll find that the Italian post bac doesn't cover the content on the MCAT (but probably close). Rules are there for reasons; in this case, one reason for requiring US (or Canadian) prereqs is that the educational models and healthcare models are very very different outside the US, and there's no time at all in US med school for figuring out how to succeed in a completely different system. Also US med schools have exactly no motivation to take the time to comprehend what's similar or not about another country's education/health system. The rejection rate in US MD admissions hit 60% last year...

That said, I know about the English language med schools in Italy, and I would certainly consider them as equivalent to going to med school in the UK, Australia, Israel et al. All of which I would rank well above Carib schools, personally. I think there's one on the Amalfi for goodness' sake.

Best of luck to you.
 
Go to a US/Canada institution, even if that meant abandoning going to UK/Australia etc.

My friend is going through the admission process right now and he wanted to get his masters done in England. But the schools here told him directly to stick to North America since they're more familiar with the curriculum/standards etc. Anecdotal I know but thought I'd mention.

Good luck!
 
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