Go abroad to study medicine

Your family background is not very helpful for you to apply for a foreign school. Only your school background can help. If your school is recognized abroad, then it is no problem for you to apply for graduate students. Look at this one below.

Title: [Original] Does the United States recognize the academic qualifications of Chinese medical schools?

/modules/bbs/viewthread.php？ tid= 140 178

Luo Xiao (Mumu)

Does the United States recognize the qualifications of Chinese medical schools?

1. Does the United States recognize the academic qualifications of Chinese medical schools?

Most people also mistakenly believe that the United States does not recognize the academic qualifications of Chinese medical schools, and China medical students cannot practice medicine and do clinical work in the United States.

In fact, foreign medical students, including the vast majority of China medical undergraduates, can receive formal clinical training in the United States through their own efforts, and finally get a medical license in the United States!

The training process includes: training interns, residents and researchers. Requirements are:

(1) Its medical schools are all on the ECFMG list (who list was used before, but it is no longer used).

(two) must obtain the American ECFMG certificate (ECFMG- Education Committee for Foreign Medical Graduates). To obtain the ECFMG certificate, you must pass the Step 1 (Basic Medicine), Step 2 (Clinical Medicine), CSA (Clinical Skills Test) and English Test (TOEFL) of USMLE.

Details can be found at ECFMG(www.ecfmg.org) and USMLE homepage (www.usmle.org).

You can find it by selecting or entering the keywords corresponding to Asia, China, Shanghai and Shanghai.

If you only choose China, you can find the school of 163-almost all five-year medical schools in China are on ECFMG's list.

Now step2 and CSA have merged to form a new step2 (including step2CK (clinical knowledge) and step2CS (clinical skills), in which the CS part will be tested in the United States and Philadelphia).

About the introduction of the exam, it is a bit old, and the parts of step2 and CSA have been changed, as mentioned above.

USMLE (American Medical Licensing Examination) is a medical examination in the United States. The organizers and administrators of the examination are NBME (National Medical Examination Committee), FSMB (American Federation of State Medical Committees) and ECFMG (Foreign Medical Level Education Committee).

The exam is divided into four stages, Step 1, Step2, CSA and Step3.

Step 1 and Step2 can be tested in the Prometric Technology Center (PTC) all over the world.

In fact, the exam is not the most difficult part in this process, but the most difficult part is the matching part. What is a match? That is, if you pass step 1 and step2, you need to enter the national intern selection (match) and get the opportunity to enter the American resident training system. It is said that the probability of successful match for international students is 50% every year. Generally speaking, American medical college graduates are much more likely to get interns than foreign medical college graduates. In 20001year, 90% of American medical college graduates and 49% of foreign medical college graduates who applied for internship in the United States got internship opportunities. )。 You must think 50% is a high proportion. The fact is that most of the foreign medical students in this 50% are already in the United States.

Because match needs an interview, you may have to send dozens of match applications. If a hospital is interested in you, they will invite you for an interview. If you are in China, how will you interview? If you can't match successfully, why take step 1 and step2?

So how do you find a way to go to America?

1. Completed the training and examination of Step I&II in China, passed TOEFL550, applied for a B- 1 tourist visa from the American embassy (consulate) in China, obtained the ECFMG certificate from the American CSA, directly participated in the selection of American residents at the beginning of each year, and went to work in the United States with H- 1 work visa after being hired by American hospitals.

That is, through step I &；; ⅱ& amp； TOEFL-> ECFMG certificate->

Intern &; At this time, the annual salary of residents is about 36,000 ~ 42,000 dollars (in fact, this is only a low salary, but it has reached the average household income in the United States, and it is family income rather than personal income).

Note: the State Council has sent official letters to embassies (consulates) all over the world, asking visa officers to issue visas to those who have passed the first step & TOEFL students go to the United States to take the CSA exam.

2. Apply directly to American universities for doctoral or basic medical research, use F- 1 student visa to go to the United States, and use the time in the United States to complete step I &；; ⅱ& amp； After obtaining the ECFMG certificate, TOEFL and CSA participated in the national selection of residents and worked in the United States.

Suggestion: First complete the first step in China; Ii. Training and examination to reduce the pressure and economic burden of the United States. (American training step ⅰ&; Ii expensive)

3. Medical students at school can exchange opportunities with American schools by cooperation, no matter 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 1 year, etc. And try their best to study in the United States. Take J- 1 to America and return home when it is due. On the one hand, it increases the cost of resident selection in the United States (because of the experience of studying in American hospitals, it is easier to get letters of recommendation). On the other hand, it has also increased the credit in the United States (because of returning to the United States on time), and it will be easy to get a visa when applying for going to the United States in the future.

4. On-the-job doctors can apply for a J- 1 visa to go to the United States through the cooperative relationship between hospitals and American hospitals, or by medical institutions such as the Medical Association. Usually they can get 1 ~ 2 years of study time, and take advantage of the opportunity to study in the United States to pass Step I &；; ⅱ& amp； TOEFL test. CSA obtained ECFMG certificate. J- 1 There are two ways to study in the United States: the first way is to participate in the selection of American residents. The second way is to apply for J- 1 exemption and work for the American state government. By 2003. 6。 Starting from 12, there are 1500 foreign doctoral places every year.

The second opportunity is actually feasible, but it is also difficult, because it requires GRE ++ to apply for a doctor+visa successfully.

-By the way, doctors in the United States are different from those in China, and they need to study all the way from master's degree to doctor's degree. You can directly apply for undergraduate graduation, but you have to prove that you are good enough.

Q: Is there an age limit for the medical license examination in the United States? How long will these exams take?

If it is an 8-year undergraduate course, can it be tested?

A: There is no age limit for the medical license examination in the United States. Then there will be a 40-year-old who passes step 1~2 and then works as an intern in the hospital.

The time is like this:

1. Contact ecfmg first, get the registration qualification after certification, register in Beijing, and then take the exam (step 1, step2CK), regardless of the review time. If you take the exam alone, it only takes 2 days, and you take one exam every day.

2. then apply for a visa to go to the United States to take the step2 CS part of the exam. Without experience, the shortest time to go to the United States for the exam 15-30 days? It should take a lot of time to prepare for applying for a visa. In addition, ecfmg sent a note to the Immigration Bureau last year, asking for an IMG (International Medical Postgraduate) visa to apply for the step2 CS exam in the United States. Therefore, it is less likely that this visa will be refused.

3. If you successfully passed Step 2 CS, congratulations. You can find ecfmg certification to obtain ECFMG certificate.

To obtain the ECFMG certificate, you must pass step 1 of USMLE (basic medicine), step 2 (clinical medicine) and score 550 in the English Test (TOEFL).

The latest news, it seems that TOEFL scores are not needed now, but I have not seen the detailed introduction, and I will definitely ask other methods to certify candidates' English ability. I wonder how long it will take.

Then there is the most difficult and time-consuming place, that is, the intern competition, which is likely to get stuck here. I can get ECFMG certificate at most in my life, but I can't get a doctor's license. At present, if medical students apply in China, the chances of getting internship opportunities are almost zero.

5. Then, IMG must practice in the United States for 2 years before taking the step3 exam (local candidates in the United States require internship 1 year), and the internship has an elimination rate, which generally requires an annual elimination rate of 10%. If the internship ends successfully, you can go to the third step and get USML.

After all, it will take at least three years for everything to go smoothly.

If you have completed step 1 2, in order to go to the United States for matching, you need to apply for a doctorate in the United States (the most common way to go to the United States) and get a visa. It takes you five years to study for a PhD+two years of internship after successful graduation = seven years, which is not counting the time for reviewing for exams in China.