USA or Australia ? please help !

[jayK]

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Hi

I was wondering if you all could please help me with this dilemma ive been facing

Im a US citizen who happened to have done my medical training (my mbbs ) from India and , now that im done, i have a choice of either staying here (which i dont want to ), or returning to the US which im not sure that i should, cuz, ive been hearing that getting into a residency is getting really hard and that, the USMLE exams have been getting even harder, which is to control the sudden influx of so many IMG's and also, Obama just passed a law that those students with pending student loans from American banks should be prefered before the others (meaning imgs) is making it hard to land a residency there, apart from that i wouldn't mind returning, and im also considering Australia for a residency which im not sure is a good idea
please help should i go back the US or should i go to Aussie ?

thank you

 

[Winged Scapula]

Unless you have some connection to Australia (ie, you are married to an Australian citizen) your chances of matching in the US as a US citizen with foreign training are greater, I would venture, than matching in Australia without citizenship or without Australian training. This is fairly well detailed in the international forums here.

 

[jayK]

Unless you have some connection to Australia (ie, you are married to an Australian citizen) your chances of matching in the US as a US citizen with foreign training are greater, I would venture, than matching in Australia without citizenship or without Australian training. This is fairly well detailed in the international forums here.

Thank you so much for your reply.

 

[shan564]

Yeah, unless you can become a permanent resident, Australia is pretty much a closed door. They barely have enough spots for all of the domestic graduates, and it's not a merit-based system, so you'll be at the bottom of the list. The US has a merit-based system, so if you have good scores, you might be considered over a domestic graduate. Also, the US still has significantly more positions available than graduates to fill those positions.

You're correct that it's more difficult to get a spot in the US than it used to be, but because you're judged on merit, it's just "difficult" rather than "nearly impossible" as it is in Australia.

If you do want to practice in Australia, you could try searching for an internship spot in Singapore, Malaysia, or New Zealand. Australia recognizes the training in those countries, and there are places available there. But it still won't be easy to get a spot in Australia afterwards. Singapore is probably the most welcoming of those three countries, but they have a limited list of "recognized" medical schools, so you'll have to check to see if your school is on that list. I don't know about Malaysia. For New Zealand, I think that you have to pass an exam to get a spot, but I think that they also accept the USMLE if I remember correctly.

 

[jayK]

Yeah, unless you can become a permanent resident, Australia is pretty much a closed door. They barely have enough spots for all of the domestic graduates, and it's not a merit-based system, so you'll be at the bottom of the list. The US has a merit-based system, so if you have good scores, you might be considered over a domestic graduate. Also, the US still has significantly more positions available than graduates to fill those positions.

You're correct that it's more difficult to get a spot in the US than it used to be, but because you're judged on merit, it's just "difficult" rather than "nearly impossible" as it is in Australia.

If you do want to practice in Australia, you could try searching for an internship spot in Singapore, Malaysia, or New Zealand. Australia recognizes the training in those countries, and there are places available there. But it still won't be easy to get a spot in Australia afterwards. Singapore is probably the most welcoming of those three countries, but they have a limited list of "recognized" medical schools, so you'll have to check to see if your school is on that list. I don't know about Malaysia. For New Zealand, I think that you have to pass an exam to get a spot, but I think that they also accept the USMLE if I remember correctly.

thank you so much for your reply its been really helpful

 

[NotAProgDirector]

As a point of order, the president of the US does not "pass laws". Congress passes laws, and then the president has the option to sign them into law or veto them (or neither, at which point the law becomes active).

In any case, there is no law giving any one class of IMG preference over any other.