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Questions for OT medical doctors regarding education.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:12 am
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:12 am
What was your undergraduate degree in? Do you feel that a science background such as majoring in biology or chemistry is crucial to succeeding in med school?
What's your opinion of the medical schools in the Caribbean? Would residency options be severely limited for an American attending one of those?
What's your opinion of the medical schools in the Caribbean? Would residency options be severely limited for an American attending one of those?
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Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:14 am to Eightballjacket
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medical schools in the Caribbean
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:16 am to Eightballjacket
My daughter got her MD in “pretty lady hair braiding” from Carribean U.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:17 am to Eightballjacket
My major was political science. I obviously had to use my electives to take the requisite MCAT courses. It might have helped me slightly during interviews, because it gave them something else to talk about during the education part of my interviews.
Caribbean school students have tough matches outside of primary care. They have tons of debt for fields with decreasing reimbursement, and now they are battling with less qualified nurse practitioners.
Caribbean school students have tough matches outside of primary care. They have tons of debt for fields with decreasing reimbursement, and now they are battling with less qualified nurse practitioners.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:17 am to Eightballjacket
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What was your undergraduate degree in? Do you feel that a science background such as majoring in biology or chemistry is crucial to succeeding in med school
Liberal arts degree. Made the first year of med school unnecessarily difficult. No question that those with science degrees had a much easier time.
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What's your opinion of the medical schools in the Caribbean? Would residency options be severely limited for an American attending one of those?
MD>DO>Carribean schools. Caribbean grads are restricted to FP or peds residencies, and these are becoming more competitive as number of MD graduates have increased nationwide but the number of residency spots has stayed constant. They are also insanely expensive, as are the DO schools ($50-70K/yr). As they are outside of the US, they are not eligible for any subsidized or preferred rate loans, so the interest rates tend to be very high as well.
This post was edited on 4/16/18 at 8:20 am
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:18 am to Eightballjacket
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What was your undergraduate degree in?
Biological Sciences
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Do you feel that a science background such as majoring in biology or chemistry is crucial to succeeding in med school?
Not really
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What's your opinion of the medical schools in the Caribbean?
Mine was decent. Only applied to three got into the first and went. Did not look back.
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Would residency options be severely limited for an American attending one of those?
No I got my #1 choice at LSU FP a few weeks ago
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:22 am to jose
Undergrad-Biochemistry
Caribbean grad
Yes the poster above is correct in we have huge amounts of debt compared to US grads. But guess what, people still call me doctor. I recently read an article about Caribbean grads filling the healthcare void in louisiana. I believe it. Sure can’t leave it up to Louisiana grads to fill the primary care void
Caribbean grad
Yes the poster above is correct in we have huge amounts of debt compared to US grads. But guess what, people still call me doctor. I recently read an article about Caribbean grads filling the healthcare void in louisiana. I believe it. Sure can’t leave it up to Louisiana grads to fill the primary care void
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:24 am to Eightballjacket
quote:Biology/Chemistry
What was your undergraduate degree in?
quote:No.
Do you feel that a science background such as majoring in biology or chemistry is crucial to succeeding in med school?
There are core classes you have to take and pass, and some of those will help, but it isn’t crucial, ISO.
quote:Scruffy knows some great doctors from there, but there is a wide gap between good and bad.
What's your opinion of the medical schools in the Caribbean?
quote:Yes, they are limited. It is still possible, but it does hurt choices.
Would residency options be severely limited for an American attending one of those?
Those schools are there to make money. They enroll massive classes with the expectations that most will fail. There are those who succeed, but in all honesty, they are the University of Phoenix of med schools.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:27 am to Eightballjacket
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What's your opinion of the medical schools in the Caribbean?
It's the Cooley / Southern equivalent of Medical School.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:51 am to Eightballjacket
If you can’t get into an American med school I wouldn’t recommend trying to go to med school. You’ll have the worst options for residencies if you even complete the degree at all.
Science background is useful but not necessary. The classes they make you take to apply to med school are enough background. But if you’re asking if you can take an easy degree and get a better gpa, med schools will see through that and grade you accordingly. Kinesiology majors get hit hard on their major. But if you want something useful in case you don’t go to med school, engineering degrees are looked on very favorably
Science background is useful but not necessary. The classes they make you take to apply to med school are enough background. But if you’re asking if you can take an easy degree and get a better gpa, med schools will see through that and grade you accordingly. Kinesiology majors get hit hard on their major. But if you want something useful in case you don’t go to med school, engineering degrees are looked on very favorably
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:00 am to Flavius Belisarius
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MD>DO>Carribean schools. Caribbean grads are restricted to FP or peds residencies, and these are becoming more competitive as number of MD graduates have increased nationwide but the number of residency spots has stayed constant.
Not saying this isnt mostly true but I know of someone who graduated a carribean school in the last 10 years who's a kidney specialist.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:04 am to Flavius Belisarius
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MD>DO>Carribean schools.
Maybe if you work in a hospital. In private practice DOs will lose a lot of clients by not having MD
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:18 am to Upperdecker
Serious question, if you are or think you are smart enough for Med school why wouldn't you get a degree in something professional as a fall back? Not to mention it would help with your med school application? Do people feel like getting an easier degree in Biology or liberal arts to get a better gpa is better than something harder?
I also don't understand why there isn't a 'medical' undergrad degree where if you don't get into medical school you are still on track to be a nurse or similar path?
I also don't understand why there isn't a 'medical' undergrad degree where if you don't get into medical school you are still on track to be a nurse or similar path?
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:23 am to baldona
Nurses should be people who want to be nurses, not bitter med school rejects.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:33 am to rockford177
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But guess what, people still call me doctor
That's meaningless. I’m a dentist and people still call me doctor.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:45 am to baldona
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Serious question, if you are or think you are smart enough for Med school why wouldn't you get a degree in something professional as a fall back? Not to mention it would help with your med school application? Do people feel like getting an easier degree in Biology or liberal arts to get a better gpa is better than something harder?
The smartest and hardest working people that I know got an engineering degree then went to med school. One of them went from LSU to Ivy League med school. Biology is kind of a default degree since it can prepare you for year 1 of med school
This post was edited on 4/16/18 at 9:48 am
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:49 am to Eightballjacket
Not an OT doctor nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express.
The main thing I would say is, regardless of your major, learn organic chemistry and its prerequisites.
That was the gatekeeper course for pre-med at my college and it kicked the arse of many an aspiring doctor.
The main thing I would say is, regardless of your major, learn organic chemistry and its prerequisites.
That was the gatekeeper course for pre-med at my college and it kicked the arse of many an aspiring doctor.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:50 am to TigrrrDad
Stu?
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:54 am to Eightballjacket
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What was your undergraduate degree in? Do you feel that a science background such as majoring in biology or chemistry is crucial to succeeding in med school?
I know a lot of people that went to UW medical school and I would say it's absolutely not crucial.
All things being equal (grades, MCAT) you probably increase your chances of acceptance with a different major.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:55 am to Jim Rockford
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Nurses should be people who want to be nurses, not bitter med school rejects.
most of the nurses I know are bitter about being nurses and they made calculated efforts to be nurses.
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