This may be of interest to all considering an FMS

[ahavah]

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"GAO calls for increased oversight of foreign medical schools

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report calling on the U.S. Department of Education to increase oversight of foreign medical schools that participate in the Federal Student Loan Program. The GAO recommended the department begin collecting data on student debt levels, graduation rates, and licensure exam pass rates. According to the report, U.S. students borrowed $1.5 billion to attend free-standing foreign medical schools between 1998 and 2008. However, in that same period, only 64 percent passed the Step 1 licensure exam on the first try, compared to 97 percent of U.S.-educated students." AAMC Stat

Full report: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10412.pdf

...I just thought this was interesting.

 

[dragonfly99]

"According to the report, U.S. students borrowed $1.5 billion to attend free-standing foreign medical schools between 1998 and 2008. However, in that same period, only 64 percent passed the Step 1 licensure exam on the first try, compared to 97 percent of U.S.-educated students." AAMC Stat
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Interesting, but not surprising. The moral of the story is don't believe anything anyone tells you (about their school's USMLE pass rate) unless you see the hard data. Don't go to any Carbbean school without significant numbers of grads in practice (in RECENT years) and try to hard to get an accounting of ALL the students who entered and left in recent years. You probably can't get one, except for 1 or 2 of those schools, and there are reasons for that.