Postby Malachite » Mon Dec 29, 2014 6:07 pm
Hopefully you are not trolling. Im assuming you want to jump right into Medical school and avoid the 4 years of under-graduate we do here in the USA, and save all these years by going to India...You can certainly do that and hope for the best, but I would personally advice taking that route....The MBBS( which is bachelor's in medicine in countries outside USA) is 4.5 years plus 1 year of Internship. I'm not trying to scare you but I heard some students from the US do not pass on time ( meaning they take anytime between 6 months to 2 years extra to finish)..There goes the 4 years undergraduate you are running from. There are various reasons for the delay..The most blatant issue is that of the anti USA( student) attitude,which will play huge role and affect the outcomes. This could all be due to the fellow students, professors and the outside examiners who decide your fate every year. The learning style can be different. The yearly exams are not tested in a way thatt lectures can be helpful. At the end of the day all it creates is worry, passing the exam and moving on. Memorizing textbooks from front to back just to regurgitate them in essay format exam.....The culture and the psychology effects of being away from home...These obstacles alone usually cause an immediate lost of 6 months first year...Ohh and when you come back, think of how long it's gonna take you to study for USMLE step 1 and 2
The learning environment too can be challenging. Students will usually discuss medicine in their native language, and patients will only speak in their language. So there is learning curve to deal with initially. I'm not trying to bash them, but to weight the pros and cons of both places....Medical school is tough itself, no doubt about that and comparing the two is hard and not really fair. Two different beast systems. In the USA, it's difficulty to get into Med school...but then passing rates are nice( you are given all the resources to succeed here and it's all about learning and not competition) and the the residency is sweet...There is that "weeder" system that starts picking student off early in under-grad, so by the time the admission to med school comes, the competition is high. It also takes extra 1 year for students to pad their resume, to apply and work on bunch of other pre-requisites that aid your application....
Where's in India, it's hard to get into, just one entrance exams. You can imagine, the admission process for students from US can be different from Indian students as their is quota allotted to such students as well as students from india willing to pay much higher tuitions PLUS, you go to India, it's be harder to get residency in USA. Re-entry to the US medical system is more difficult than it once was. It can close off your chances competitive Us residency. You will not need a lot of time to study for boars, although you do interact with patients from early on, clinical integration is practically non-existent
A lot of think the grass is greener on the other side, but if you know by moving from USA to India for medicine, you are doing it the opposite of what so many people want to do...
I'm not saying don't do it under any circumstances, weigh the options......Good luck