Guest UBCstu Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 Hi, Could someone give me some insight into the process that students have to undergo if they have studied at a US med school but want to do residency in Canada (eg-exams, etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moo Posted April 27, 2005 Report Share Posted April 27, 2005 Same thing as a Canadian grad would undergo. Take LMCC Part I in May of your graduating year. Start applying to Carms when Canadian students apply. US students can match into first round in all the major provinces (BC, AB, ON, PQ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dr555 Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 Is it true that US med school graduates have to do an additional year of internship in Canada before applying to residencies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moo Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 No. A US grad goes through the same residency training as a Canadian grad. What you're probably thinking about is that if you do residency in the US, you may have to do an extra year in Canada if you want to go back to practice b/c some residencies are longer in Canada than the US. But this is the same whether you are a Canadian or US medical graduate (undergraduate medical education as opposed to graduate medical education). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dr555 Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Thanks moo. You're saying that American MS graduates are allowed to apply to Canadian residencies. However, are there a fixed number of positions reserved for them? ( ie. Besides tuition, are there any major disadvantages in going the States for MS and then coming back to for residencies/practice in Canada?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rads Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 American graduates should be treated the same as Canadian graduates in CARMS and the NBME (the Canadian and US residency application services, respectively). As long as you graduate from an LCME accredited med school (pretty much all of them) than you are good to go. Whether you are CONSIDERED equally is a different story. A Canadian residency director may not know what US medical school you went to, and thus may not understand/trust your transcripts/evals/etc. That said, it probably works the same way if you had gone to a Canadian medschool and applied for a US residency. I would think the biggest disadvantage of going stateside and then wanting to go back to Canada is $$$. Why pay 100,000/year in the US when you can pay $40k in Canada and have an easier time matching in canada? Rule 1 for considering to apply to the US. Can you afford the tuition? Rule 2: Where do you want to end up? If you want to end up in Canada, STAY THERE. If you want to end up in the US, c'mon over. Rule 3: Just because you go to a Canadian medical school, doesn't mean you can't move to the US for residency or after residency training Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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