Every year thousands of physicians, foreign medical graduates and final year medical students of foreign medical schools, participate in the ERAS program to get into post graduate training or residency programs in the US.
Based on statistics alone not everyone will get in. It could be due to limited number of residency slots, limited specialties easily accessible to foreign medical graduates, immigration status etc. It has increasingly gotten more and more difficult for international medical graduates to get into residency and every year seems to be worse than the preceding one. For sure not everyone will get in, and some will never practice medicine again in any capacity.
It is very important that from the get go FMGs know what the odds are for getting in. Understanding what you face and the options available to you if all fails is very important. It will motivate you to do what you need to do to be among the less than 50% of IMGs that get into residency; if there are obstacles along the way you will know what to do to get around them.
Getting into residency for IMGs will open your eyes to how to make contact with residency programs, get observerships for that US clinical experience that most programs want you to have; shows you pathways to get a green card, direct you to IMG friendly residency programs where you are most likely to get accepted, alternatives to a medical career in the US if for any reason you do not realize your objectives right away etc.
In the absence of a face to face interview and a high score in the USMLE, the only thing that that will get you the attention of program directors is your personal statement. This book takes you step by step on how to write a compelling personal statement t as in international medical graduate. It shows you how to use setbacks as a stepping stone, how to come up with a narrative that will keep your reading audience captivated and at the same time illuminating you as “the candidate” for a residency slot in their program etc.
Do not short change yourself, get your hands on “Getting into Residency for IMGs” and secure your medical career in the US! You need to take care of your future. Only you can take care of you the best!
Based on statistics alone not everyone will get in. It could be due to limited number of residency slots, limited specialties easily accessible to foreign medical graduates, immigration status etc. It has increasingly gotten more and more difficult for international medical graduates to get into residency and every year seems to be worse than the preceding one. For sure not everyone will get in, and some will never practice medicine again in any capacity.
It is very important that from the get go FMGs know what the odds are for getting in. Understanding what you face and the options available to you if all fails is very important. It will motivate you to do what you need to do to be among the less than 50% of IMGs that get into residency; if there are obstacles along the way you will know what to do to get around them.
Getting into residency for IMGs will open your eyes to how to make contact with residency programs, get observerships for that US clinical experience that most programs want you to have; shows you pathways to get a green card, direct you to IMG friendly residency programs where you are most likely to get accepted, alternatives to a medical career in the US if for any reason you do not realize your objectives right away etc.
In the absence of a face to face interview and a high score in the USMLE, the only thing that that will get you the attention of program directors is your personal statement. This book takes you step by step on how to write a compelling personal statement t as in international medical graduate. It shows you how to use setbacks as a stepping stone, how to come up with a narrative that will keep your reading audience captivated and at the same time illuminating you as “the candidate” for a residency slot in their program etc.
Do not short change yourself, get your hands on “Getting into Residency for IMGs” and secure your medical career in the US! You need to take care of your future. Only you can take care of you the best!
