With all do respect, I need to call you on this one. For some residencies, this is the case; however, for many of them, this is not the case. There are definitely programs that do look at foreign medical schools differently.
For instance, just look at the number of people who have obtained some of the more "sought after" residencies such as Ortho, Optho (I know Saba has one now), ENT, Derm, etc. Yes, these are hard for US students to get, and even harder for IMGs to obtain; however, I think that you will see that those from schools like Ross and St. Georges are more likely to have opportunities to get them.
Trust me, when I was on the interview scene, I know of students from the "more prestigious" schools that got more interviews than I did despite me having higher board scores and coming from Saba. I was denied interviews from programs when they saw that I was from Saba (They did not even have downloaded my grades, board scores, letters of Rec, etc.)
I think that I can safely say that at this time, there are many more people that know of St. Georges and will probably extend more interviews to those from St. Georges than to those from Saba.
Once again, I have been through the process, I have seen it first hand, and I speak from experience.
Posted on Oct 10, 2002, 3:56 PM from IP address 207.74.113.93
