Summary: Episode 48: Four timless questions and answers that every PreMed must know. Download transcript: Q&A From an MMC Graduate In this episode, we’re digging back into the archives to talk about some questions from a Mastermind member who leads gp brighton clinic. This is back from December 2009 when we were doing a private coaching session with someone who later got into medical school. If you would listen back far enough, you will find the podcast episode that discussed four years of application failure, five acceptances. This is someone who was interviewed on the podcast previously that spent four years in a row couldn’t get into medical school, decided to work in the medical field for a while, found me and I coached her through and she got accepted to five different medical schools and had her choice and she picked her first choice. These questions have already been answered privately in the Mastermind Community, but I wanted to bring to you a public sample of what happens on inside the community that can revolutionize someone’s career trajectory that far. She is very happy now by the way and she’s an author on one of our research papers. Question number one. How hard is it really to get a job as an American-foreign medical graduate? For example, if I were to go to Roche down in the Caribbean. She has worked at a recruiting company that said it can be hard to place someone in job positions. Some places categorically refuse to hire Caribbean grads and she wanted to hear direct from folks interviewed on the program. I worked with a number of osteopathic physicians and I’ve done a research and statistics so I want to take this question here publicly. First of all, let me back up and explain the context. Whenever you go to medical school, you have an allopathic or MD route or an osteopathic route that you can go down. One grants in MD degree, one grants a DO degree. For the allopathics going to MD, when you’re down with medical school, you go on into an allopathic residency program of all the different specialties that you’ve heard about. If you go osteopathic, you can get a DO. You actually have your choice of either an osteopathic residency, because there are lots of specialties that are osteopathic or you can go into an allopathic one, so you can go either way if you’re osteopathic. If you are allopathic and have an MD, you can’t go into an osteopathic residency, so it’s one-sided. In that respect, it is easier to get a job because you have more options if you’re osteopathic. The statistics don’t quite bare themselves out because when you research it, which I have of course, the osteopathic society that licenses osteopathic medical schools does not publish enough statistics for somebody to calculate the residency matriculation rate when they graduate. The only thing we have available is osteopathics and there’s only about 78% of graduating senior osteopathic students get allopathic residencies. I know that might sound confusing. We really don’t think it’s not bad. In other words we don’t think it’s 22% of osteopaths not getting a residency. But more than her question here is this idea of not being able to get a job if you’re osteopathic. It’s really ridiculous and in fact you think it’s illegal for a place to refuse someone because of their training in the Caribbean. She’s given us insider information and I have heard this from other sources, too that some people don’t want foreign-trained doctors or foreign medical graduates. It’s the fact of life. It’s not that the employers don’t really want it. It’s usually that the patients don’t want it. The last thing that they want to do is take their baby to someone who doesn’t hardly speak English when they’re sick in the middle of the night. You know what I mean? It’s a cultural thing. I agree largely in ignorance thing.[...]
