residency US

[helena]

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I am a Swedish medical student and I`m wondering how hard it is for a foreigner to get a residency in the U.S.? I know you have to pass the boards (with good scores) but besides from that, do you need to "know" and get recommendations from U.S. doctors? I suppose a clinical clerkship in the States would help, but how do you get one? Can you yourself contact a hospital? And is it not true that you can only get an observatory clerkship in the U.S.? (if you don?t have your own malpractise insurance). And would an observatory clerkship help?
All advice is helpful!

 

[DrSambo]

I am a Swedish medical student and I`m wondering how hard it is for a foreigner to get a residency in the U.S.? I know you have to pass the boards (with good scores) but besides from that, do you need to "know" and get recommendations from U.S. doctors? I suppose a clinical clerkship in the States would help, but how do you get one? Can you yourself contact a hospital? And is it not true that you can only get an observatory clerkship in the U.S.? (if you don?t have your own malpractise insurance). And would an observatory clerkship help?
All advice is helpful!

I think your best bet would be to contact various U.S. medical schools directly to make this inquiry. I think you should probably be able to do a clearkship without much difficulty, and that you should probably have essentially the same status as any other medical student there.

 

[helena]

I've heard that they require a malpractise insurane though. Does anyone know how much it costs? And if anyone found a clearkship in the U.S. by their own initiative, please tell how you did it and how it worked out!

 

[lf777]

Hi

I have some info at www.medicalresident.net It could be of help.

thanks
lf

 

[Miklos]

I am a Swedish medical student and I`m wondering how hard it is for a foreigner to get a residency in the U.S.? I know you have to pass the boards (with good scores) but besides from that, do you need to "know" and get recommendations from U.S. doctors? I suppose a clinical clerkship in the States would help, but how do you get one? Can you yourself contact a hospital? And is it not true that you can only get an observatory clerkship in the U.S.? (if you don?t have your own malpractise insurance). And would an observatory clerkship help?
All advice is helpful!

Why would you ever want to leave the Swedish socialist paradise for the U.S.?

 

[Purifyer]

Why would you ever want to leave the Swedish socialist paradise for the U.S.?

She wants to meet charming people like you Miklos, obviously.

 

[theodore]

Do you two guys know each other? It looks like you have a very special relationship. Miklos, I'm dissapointed. I never believed the words 'socialism' and 'paradise' would ever come out of your mouth in the same sentence!!

 

[helena]

It?s cold here!! I want to go someplace warmer...
It seems almost impossible to do clerkships through the medical schools in the U.S., they require you to have taken all the undergraduate rotations and we don?t have OB/GYN and Peds until the last semester.
Well, well, maybe it?s possible to contact the hospitals directly or something.