This is why you avoid Carribean Med Schools

[slatermd]

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Now...
Of 1000 US IMG's, 10 apply for gas and 8 match.

Or wait...
Of 1000 US IMG's, 200 apply for gas and 8 match.

Didn't think about this

Just extrapolating data from NRMP's match data (2010), anywho:

IM

US MD: 170 per 1000 matched
US DO: 146 per 1000 matched
US Citizen IMG MD: 124 per 1000 matched

FM

US MD: 73 per 1000 matched
US DO: 135 per 1000 matched
US Citizen IMG MD: 118 per 1000 matched

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And here are the rest:

ENT

US MD: 16 per 1000 matched
US DO: 0.5 per 1000 matched
US Citizen IMG MD: 0.27 per 1000 matched

ORTHO

US MD: 37 per 1000 matched
US DO: 1.5 per 1000 matched
US Citizen IMG MD: 0.81 per 1000 matched

GENERAL SURGERY

US MD: 55 per 1000 matched
US DO: 10 per 1000 matched
US Citizen IMG MD: 13 per 1000 matched

Again, what meaningful conclusion can you pull from this? It'a a demographic. It doesn't tell us anything about success or quality of the applicants, just where they wound up.

Could one conclude it's better to be a US IMG than a US DO for general surgery now? I don't think so. Or maybe you will be twice as successful matching FM with a DO than an MD degree?

Conclusions, nah. It is interesting to note the disparities in where the US IMG's end up, and where they basically don't. I was mainly curious about primary care numbers compared with the gen surg numbers.

 

[Brigade4Radiant]

The reason I posted this is because a great number of people who plan on going to the "BIG4" say that as long as they work hard and and score as well as, or better than, US allopathic grads that they will get what they want. Clearly this is not the case. The bias against Caribbean grads is very real and with increasing US enrollment the Match will become even more difficult.

Here we have a student who did extremely well in medical school considering they had nearly a 4.0 in basic sciences and got 248 on their STEP1. They worked as hard as they could and should have matched into SOME Gas program but did not. Yeah the person got their top choice IM program...but it wasn't their desired specialty. And its not like we are talking about Derm or NS or Ortho here.

There are people from SGU who match into Anesthesiology with 225s. Gas is not at all competitive. So problem may lie with how the student presents themselves.

 

[bookfreak89]

to add to my previous post now that i read a bit further in the valuemd thread...

this person applied to SEVENTY....70!!....SEVENTY!!! anesthesia programs and only got NINE interviews with a 248 on STEP 1

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It sounds like this person only GOT 9 interviews out of 70 applications. The only interviews this person didn't go to were IM interviews.

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The person in question applied to 70 programs, received 23 interview invites, and attended 10 interviews, as per the first post.

 

[alwaysaangel]

😕

The person in question applied to 70 programs, received 23 interview invites, and attended 10 interviews, as per the first post.

No. Then OP applied to 70 anesthesia programs, received 9 interviews and attended all 9.

They also applied to 30 IM programs and received 23 interview invites and attended 10.

 

[dr zaius]

Has anyone mentioned 3rd year rotation grades?

 

[dr zaius]

Lolz. I love this whole Caribbean joke. I donot and will never knock anyone's hope for trying to become a better person, but this joke is just too darn funny. In fact, I have applied the concept to other institutions as well. To illustrate, I was in my ap stats class the other day when some asian chick (who is always challenging the teacher to some obscure aspect of our work) flamed this kid for being stupid. Fortunately, this kid retorted and soon I chimed in saying that I hope she does not end up in a Caribbean pharmacy school because she failed College Statistics and Logic. Weall lold, then we serious'd.

Also your jokes are bad and you should feel bad.