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Started by davethebarbarian
The motto on this site seems to be "practice medicine in the US if you want to go to school in the US". I think that it is going to get harder for International students to get residency spots because in state students are generally going to get first pick. The amount of medical school seats is growing while the number of residency positions is staying the same. I think I read somewhere that 99% of instate graduates will get a match (the rate for attendance is lower) and that 20% of residency positions are given to international students basically getting the leftover spots.
This means that when the number of in state graduates goes up, less spots are going to be available to international students, atleast until they open more residency spots. Canada seems to be competitive so this might apply more to the carribean schools thanCanadian schools. I'm not an adcom or even a med student so take this with a pound of salt.
He would not be an international applicant. He has a green card.
Canadian transcripts are accepted by AMCAS so there is no disadvantage.
A potential disadvantage is that shadowing is extremely difficult to obtain in Canada (med schools don't look for it there), so you should try to come back to the States in the summer to get that done. You should be fine to get clinical exposure during the year though.
No, Canadian medical school graduates are not disadvantaged when it comes to the US match. Canadian medical schools are very very very different from Caribbean/other stereotypical international medical schools (seriously don't say they are remotely comparable in front of anyone). The reason Canadians have a harder time matching in the US is because Canadians require visas to do residency in the US and many residency programs don't offer (or don't like to offer) visas since the paperwork is a hassle.
am I looked down upon for attending a canadian school however?
its an option a bit cheaper but med school is ~20% acceptance rate. my gpa isnt even that competitive here. 3.83.
Oh so you're well into undergrad already? Not much use in fretting over potential disadvantages then! You won't have the boon you might have had coming from an Ivy league, but the important part is that you're a permanent resident. It's not that big a deal that they likely won't recognize your school.
And even for Canadian schools your GPA isn't bad. Don't get psyched out by UofT's average, plenty of people get in with those grades. Study hard for the MCAT if you haven't taken it and plenty of doors will be open. Just remember even highly competitive applicants can take several years to get in in Canada.
Wow, you have the same GPA as me. I did not think Canada med school was that competitive.
I don't know much about citizenship and residency in the United States, but it looks like you won't be counted as a international student, which is the biggest disadvantage. So you should be fine depending on your mcat.
