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[bluemamba7]

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Friend is asking which country is the best to study medicine (which country trains the best physicians).

 

[calipremed5768]

USA

 

[bluemamba7]

USA

Happy to hear that!!! (that is if I get accepted this cycle)

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

If you find a way to evaluate which nation trains the best doctors please let me know - I haven’t heard of one yet.

Your question is like asking which hamburger topping is the best. Its going to depend on who’s eating the burger (getting the medical education). Some people like lettuce. some like BBQ sauce.

However confidently I can say which places would most certainly not provide the best medical education (north Korea, democratic republic of Congo, Antarctica) and what toppings are certainly not best on a hamburger (anchovies, vegemite, sulfuric acid).

 

[bluemamba7]

The medicare culture in the USA is VERY different than any other system, such as the UK. They function very differently


Again, there is no way to answer this. The US educates and trains physician to a high level in competency with a system of admission to medical school, residency, and board certification. Saying they are "the most educated" there is no way to do a comparison across countries to do this.

The UK limits non-EU docs to great extent, though with UK is about to leave the EU, who knows what will happen. Working as a doctor in the UK



Almost impossible. Countries train doctors who will most likely practice in that country


Yes


Let me reiterate, the medical cultures and system in most countries differ extensively from US, including English-speaking such as UK. The commonwealth medical community has its own structure in many ways. Again, your whole idea and thought process shows a simplistic naivety

Thanks gonnif, definitely not the most educated on this topic which was why I asked! Will do some more research!

 

[bluemamba7]

If you find a way to evaluate which nation trains the best doctors please let me know - I haven’t heard of one yet.

Your question is like asking which hamburger topping is the best. Its going to depend on who’s eating the burger (getting the medical education). Some people like lettuce. some like BBQ sauce.

However confidently I can say which places would most certainly not provide the best medical education (north Korea, democratic republic of Congo, Antarctica) and what toppings are certainly not best on a hamburger (anchovies, vegemite, sulfuric acid).

Good point, I guess maybe the better question would be which country allows for the greatest flexibility to practice medicine in other, foreign countries?

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

Probably USA by sheer force of reputation, or the UK thanks to the commonwealth system (although there are definitely people on here who understand how that works better than me).

There are places in Asia that will pay astronomical amounts of money to have Americans from big name universities come out and lecture.

 

[Immuno9]

I know of one top 20 medical school in the US where 1 or 2 students do apply for residency outside the USA. This ADCOM used to work for the school, so there is interest among US students.

Also, some US pre-meds do get accepted to the medical schools in the UK and the MCAT equivalent is called the BMAT