Residency?s

[cbennett]

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Hi, I was considering dental school up untill recently. I have a fairly high gpa 3.8 and will be graduating this next year. I am really curious about these schools in the caribean. I have never looked into these or even medicine that seriously untill i began to realize that many dental specialties are being elliminated/ becoming extinct due to the gd being able to due the procedures becasue of the new technology. I should mention that i am a US citizen and could deffinently get into a US school but i would like to find out more information about the caribean schools. I realy could not give a **** about the prestige of going to a US school over a non-us one, but i would realy like to spend some time out of the US. Are any of these school in resort towns or are in very nice areas? Also are these schools rather expensive. I have 140K in wills that are set aside for professional school. Would this cover my entire education. Also are thses graduates accepted into residencys in the US and would i be able to practice back home guarenteed.

One last question, like i stated before i am just begining to consider medicine and realy don't know that much about it. I realy don't care about making **** loads of money(150k a year would be more than enough for me) but what i do care about is hours and being on-call. I realize that this isnt directly a carribean topic but i would like to know if anyone could list specialties or just regular doctors have low hours/predictable hours 9-5 or 7-3 and are all these specialties extremely competative

 

[boukies]

Hey, if you're looking into Caribbean schools you should be looking at the top 4....AUC, SABA, St George and Ross because of accredation/licensing in just about all states...if you're looking for schools in an area where theres things to do...(ps even tho school's academics are the most important) St Matthews is a good option in the Cayman Islands...SABA and Ross are on islands where there really isnt much to do....

as for schedules....I work for an orthopedic surgeon and he works 4 days a week about 45-50 hrs...unless he is on call....it really does depend on the area of medicine you choose...for ex if you chose Emergency Medicine, your hours will vary greatly and you can have 12 hr shifts and overnighters....it really depends on what you want to do though...dont pick something just because of the "hours".

 

[njemt369]

I would not go out of the US if you don't have to. It will make your life much easier later on when it is time for residency. You have a great GPA... If you do decide to go out of the US though I would go in this order:
St. Georges > Ross > AUC = SABA

Good luck

 

[silas2642]

Don't go to the Caribbean unless you absolutely have to. For one thing, the attrition rate is much higher at these schools. Other factors to consider are cost (I believe that federal funding for Stafford loans for Caribbean students is being pulled, or at least that's the rumor), lifestyle (some are in third world countries where there are no supermarkets), being far away from home, rotations can kind of be a pain, the Caribbean stigma that you have to overcome.

Caribbean schools are great if you can't get into a US school. Your gpa is good, so I would try to nail the mcats and go for a US seat-- trust me, you'll thank me in the end.