DSMD is right!!!! Do rotations in the US if you can
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Not to mention the fact that many residencies, including the roughly 30% of the programs I have inquired about wanted to know where I did my clinicals. I told them in ACGME approved hospitals in the US. That is what they wanted to hear. Two programs directors told me point blank on the phone that they only consider foreign students who did all of their 3rd and 4th year training in the US. When I first started at Saba I thought going to England for rotations was the best move because all of the hospital work over there would be considered Green Book Teaching back here in the US. Although this generality appears to be true it is still a double edge sword because programs also want the US experience. Its not that the education is lacking over there its just that you get exposure to our system of medicine here in the US which is very different from overseas. My wife is European and trust me hospitals over there are very different. By getting exposure to US medicine you get exposed to the paperwork, computer systems, charting, and other hospital protocols. Plus the fact, medicine is not socialized here as it is in England so procedures like patient processing are very different. If you can do all of your rotations in the US it just makes that uphill climb a bit easier. Best of Luck to all. Scott Jones DC MS III
Posted on Oct 31, 2002, 7:20 AM from IP address 207.19.126.2
