can I become a doctor in the USA after graduating from the UK?

username7257000

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how could I get a scholarship to an American university and do medicine there?

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TSR Hippocrates

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Reply 2

Democracy

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Original post

by aspiringmed0

how could I get a scholarship to an American university and do medicine there?

Well I don't think you can. Medical school in the USA is competitive, even more so for international students, and there's pretty much no way they're going to pay for an international student when their home students pay +++.

Reply 3

dx7

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as a prior US med applicant with an offer there pre-COVID but ended up studying med years later in UK…

never heard of an intl applicant other than couple Canadians you'd meet at interviews, but I kinda doubt you'd be eligible for any meaningful scholarship as it'd be hard to kinda gauge out how competitive you are unless you're like a 1st from Oxbridge (my acceptance came with one but was like $5,000 off a $50,000 tuition, but also like no one in family or friends who went into med had ever heard of places like Imperial or UCL in their lives…). I defo wouldn't bank on it, but here's a website on this very subject, and apparently ~50 of the ~150 MD programs in the US accept intl grads (link). the other option is apply DO schools, but I never applied DO so don't know about their process or standards, plus I applied years back and a lots changed from just peeking the AMCAS site in an attempt to answer your Q…

Reply 4

Muu9

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Medicine in the US is a graduate degree, and those programs are very expensive and highly selective for international students. Another route is to do medicine in the UK and then apply to US residencies after completing STEP exams (US medical exams).

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