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08.19.08Training All Over AgainTraining All Over Again Ashok M. Karnik Attending Pulmonologist Nassau University Medical Center Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine SUNY Stony Brook, NY A large number of physicians from various countries arrive in the US each year to receive further training. This is a diverse group of individuals, with different socio-cultural backgrounds, varying standards of medical education and a vast range of previous experiences. This transition, however, from a foreign medical graduate ("FMG") to a successful physician practicing medicine in the US, is not easy. Given below are areas where difficulties are often encountered. Differences between foreign medical education, hospital practices and socio-cultural patterns and those of the ...
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08.18.08ALTERNATE PATHWAYS FOR FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATESDear Friends: One of the aspect or cause of our failure to get into residency program here in USA is wasting of time in observerships. The programs don't consider observerships/research/externship as clinical experience for foreign medical graduates because whatever you do they think it's not a quality clinical experience. So I don't know how much it really helps. It might help also depending on individual cases but it is my opinion that if a USA degree is mentioned like a master's degree or strictly clinical experience like surgical assistant or something like that, it would look good on resume/CV. Honestly if ...
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08.17.08How to Study for the BoardsThis report has been prepared by Nicole Hindman, Class President '2001 This is the updated version of this informative packet. It now includes the opinions of the third years present at the 2/16/99 Class of 2001 Dinner. These remarks are listed at the end of the handout, in part VI. Sample Study Schedule Student X Note: This is a 31-day study schedule. This schedule is from a student who scored in the 97th percentile on the Boards. It incorporates one day off, on day 15 or 16, to do nothing except 2 practice tests. The day before the exam this student did the practice ...
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06.06.08EGMEDICINE is opened nowEGMEDICINE.com is now opened for public registration , get your own free medical blog in less than 5 minutes
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05.24.08we r SOLDit's been 27 months since we start the USMLE Guide blog , helped some of you guys , and made some confused i admit it , nothing is perfect anyway but i pray that it did help some now i came to a point in which i can't come online anymore cuz i got a job in emirates which requires all my future efforts , and can't come to remove all spam comments, porno related comments and insults :-) so i sold the EGMEDICINE.com few weeks ago to the one who helped me establishing it and he promised not to remove usmle.egmedicine.com ...
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04.28.08Recommended books for USMLERecommended books: It seems nowadays that majority of people study kaplan review notes which is available in Egypt also and views about the quality of it are different but some got great scores even 99% using these notes only as a review material .however some still study from books rated A (in first aid book) and can get high scores too. so it is your decision.... you should first start to read first aid book and you will find at the end of it rated books and hints about each one if u live in egypt the available books for step 1 are ...
