Which Irish schools prepare you for the USMLE?

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Badkarma25

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they all will because ultimately you prepare yourself. they provide the tools. if it's spoonfeeding you want try rcsi, they seem to have the most experience providing usmle experience, from what i've heard.
 

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If you mean things like do they give you a month off to study for the USMLE or do USMLE prep courses like some Caribbean schools, then no. Their purpose is to provide medical professionals for their own country, not the US. However, you do obviously learn the same material, and all the Americans here know there is a significant amount of self-study to be done for the USMLE and with this mindset are quite successful at the boards. Do the courses prepare you well? Yes for some of them. There are areas that they don't focus on as much (ie. embryology), but you just do that yourself. There is self-study to be done even in the US.
 
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