I am actively working with current Mexican medical students that want to pass the U.S. boards by giving them ideas on starting to study now (Kaplan
videos, First Aid, USMLE World.) With the Reach out program, and with the ECFMG's current guidelines to have a world standard for exams and standards
for practicing medicine by 2023, we can all do our part to make this a reality. Letter written to my Congressman today:
Subject: Re: Medical school in Mexico
Hi Joe,
I have completed Medical School in Mexico. It turns out the Department of Education has disqualified my school for any more U.S. Federal Loans
because of the school's pass rate on the United States Medical Licensing Exam. I would say 90% of this problem has to do with the reluctance of the
U.S. Department of Education' to monitor the last few years (by their own admission, and a letter sent out to the Department by DOE) of the school's
curriculum and U.S. exam's test results. I am a Doctor in Mexico, but in the US I still have to pass the exams, and I will need to study the material
about a year to pass Step 1 because the school probably covered about 40% of the material I need to learn. There have been very few people passing
the exam that are from the US and their territories.
I have contacted the numbers you gave me. The US did not monitor the program there sufficiently to meet the DOE's requirements of a pass rate of 60%.
Because of the DOE's failure to sufficiently monitor the school, sadly, Joe, the standards for my school and many other foreign medical schools have
fallen way behind the US's in material covered and exam pass rate, making it almost an impossible task to pass the exams unless you can spend a year
or two after medical school not working and studying for them. Most are making very little money or unemployed outside of the U.S. and not as
physicians because of these problems. Even then, the students that do pass with a substantially lower score, which greatly hinders their chances of
getting into a U.S. Residency program that they desire. The other sad part of the story is that my school has no interest in raising the bar to meet
the U.S.'s requirements to pass the exam.
Looking on the Bright Side
MrBillM - 1-2-2013 at 04:04 PM
Poor Medical care in 3rd-world countries could actually have a positive (winnowing) effect.
Joe???
bajaguy - 1-2-2013 at 06:35 PM
A US Congressman and you address him as "Joe"?????
Great way to get your point across, unless you know him personally, and even then.....luv2fish - 1-2-2013 at 06:57 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by bajaguy
A US Congressman and you address him as "Joe"?????
Great way to get your point across, unless you know him personally, and even then.....
Just an amazing thread, so far. "Joe" is offensive, and yet...................DENNIS - 1-2-2013 at 07:33 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Hook
Just an amazing thread, so far. "Joe" is offensive, and yet...................
Maybe it's Joe Biden. EnsenadaDr - 1-3-2013 at 12:38 PM
The US Government gave Xochicalco University in Tijuana and Ensenada 5.5 million U.S. Dollars of the American taxpayers money as Federal Stafford
loans for U.S. and Puerto Ricans going to the school. After being alerted by my Congressman, the U.S. Department of Education has now discontinued
any U.S. loans because of the pass rate of the US Boards being lower than agreed to per contract between the school and the U.S. Department of
Education. Who knows what's going on with U.S. money in Guadalajara and other foreign medical schools? Oh, and the Congressman asked me to call him
Joe, and I have been in contact with him for several years.wessongroup - 1-3-2013 at 06:45 PM
