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Originally Posted by McCarthy
since residency posts are state funded, i thought it was really hard to get a place as an international?
or am i thinking of internships? or US med school places in general? ha ha i'm so confused!
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It's a general preference for giving out positions to local applicants that plays the biggest role. The order of preference is like this: U.S. medical school graduates>foreign medical graduates with U.S. citizenship>everyone else. Securing visas in time can be problematic and I think that's a headache that residency directors don't like to deal with unless they really have to.
Keep in mind that foreign medical school graduates drive a huge part of U.S. health care and many of them have no intention of staying in the U.S. when qualified. They are often open about that. If it were not for foreign medical graduates, MANY residency programmes would cease to exist. Some of the smaller community hospitals are staffed entirely by foreign medicals school graduates.
Getting into a U.S. medical school as a foreigner is a herculean task, however.