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re: Ross Unversity Med School
Posted on 3/19/16 at 4:42 pm to ctiger69
Posted on 3/19/16 at 4:42 pm to ctiger69
Caribbean schools are increasingly becoming a worse idea. There are new US MD schools popping up and virtually every US MD school has increased class sizes (the same is true to an even greater extent for DO schools). This means it will be harder and harder for Caribbean grads to secure residency spots, even primary care spots. A Caribbean grad will have virtually zero chance of matching any specialty that's competitive for US MDs.
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Posted on 3/19/16 at 4:44 pm to Parallax
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A Caribbean grad will have virtually zero chance of matching any specialty that's competitive for US MDs.
Maybe in the future, but for now there are still IMGs getting spots in the most competitive specialties. I agree that it's getting tougher and tougher, but if you ace your boards, and do some electives at the hospital of your choice, it's still possible.
Posted on 3/19/16 at 4:45 pm to Parallax
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Caribbean schools are increasingly becoming a worse idea. There are new US MD schools popping up and virtually every US MD school has increased class sizes (the same is true to an even greater extent for DO schools). This means it will be harder and harder for Caribbean grads to secure residency spots, even primary care spots. A Caribbean grad will have virtually zero chance of matching any specialty that's competitive for US MDs.
To add, I believe 2015 was the first year that there are more US graduates than residency spots available.
Posted on 3/21/16 at 7:17 am to Parallax
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Ross Unversity Med School Caribbean schools are increasingly becoming a worse idea. There are new US MD schools popping up and virtually every US MD school has increased class sizes (the same is true to an even greater extent for DO schools). This means it will be harder and harder for Caribbean grads to secure residency spots, even primary care spots. A Caribbean grad will have virtually zero chance of matching any specialty that's competitive for US MDs.
That might be the case for the other caribbean schools, but the Big3/4, which Ross is a part of, that should not be a problem for the next 10 years or so.
As far as the prelim question that you asked in another post, I just checked my school's list and about 10% of the residents matched in a prelimanary program. Also since DeVry bought AUC (my school) and added an additional trimester where all you do is study for Step1 the 1st time pass rate has increased from 95% in '09 to 97% in '12 and it increased to 100% in '13 and has bounced between 98-100% the last few cycles. They don't publish what the average score is, or if they do I can't find them on the homepage or first few links on google. The lowest that I have heard of from my circle of friends was around 220, and most of my friends that took it scored 230 or better.
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This post was edited on 3/21/16 at 8:23 am
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