[Jaysh]

Excellent posts by brother MossadC.

Look dudes, you can pretty much do your medical school anywhere (almost), and still get into residency in America. It's all about your USMLE scores. So if you go to an American med school, you can get into an awesome residency even if you have weak USMLE scores. The trade-off for going to a foreign med school is that you have to score much higher on your USMLE to get the same spot as an American grad, and even still, the American grad will take priority over you.

If you plan on doing a hyper-competitive field like Derm/Rads/etc, then yeah, it becomes MUCH harder if you go to a foreign medical school. But it's NOT impossible (far from it). You can also do post-docs, PhDs, masters, etc, all of which will boost your chances, if you are a foreign med grad who didn't get in to the residency of your choice. Just to give hope, this year a foreign medical grad matched in NEUROSURGERY at STANFORD...stanford only has three slots for NS, and he got it. So anything is possible...yes, it's much harder though. Being an AMG is ideal of course.

But if you want to go into a field like pscyh, family med, Medicine (including ALL of its sub-specialities such as Cardio, Gas, etc.), then the good news is that foreign med students get these spots easily. Well, not if you are a crappy student...you still have to score a 90+ on your USMLE, but that's not that hard.

The downside of going to a crappy med school though is that you might do crappy on the USMLE, but I think this is more a pre-selective process. Crappier students go to crappier med schools, so they score crappier on the USMLE, not really because of the med school as such but because they were crappy students to begin with.

But schools like Ross and SGU are not crappy at all. I'm talking about the REALLY crappy med schools. My relative went to a med school in the Carribean which only had 10 students TOTAL (LOL), and in their second year, the school just closed down and ran away with their money (LOL). It was just a scam.

Anyways, that won't happen if you go to Ross or SGU or some place like that. Hell, a Ross grad got the highest USMLE score in all of mankind's history.