Hey Elizabeth, as a premed I’m very interested! I’m Mexican by blood living in Texas and I was already gonna get a dual citizenship anyways! Can you tell me what your experience is and how you’re liking it?

@@angelicasoto7877 I don’t recommend it. I wish someone had told me the negative side and not only the positive before going for it.

@@angelicasoto7877 of course! can you dm me on twitter @xelizabethrios so i can answer all your questions

@@AngelRamirez-zv6qp and what is the negative side?

@@wallywally3738 Specifically on the process, its easier to get in and you don’t need an undergraduate degree, but if you plan to return to the US and get a medical license you have to remember that you will be competing with the same people that you would have when applying to medical school in the US. This time though it would be for a medical residency, which you will need to complete in order to get a license. Medical education in Mexico, at least in my experience, doesn’t really prepare you to be competitive worldwide. It’s understandable, since they are more concerned about making doctors for public heath than for medical research and world class medical care. If you only study what they teach and require you to learn, which is hard enough, you will lack the knowledge you will test on for the US medical board exams. Since you are already in a disadvantage for having a medical education in a foreign country, you have to make up for it to be considered a candidate for a residency program. Getting a high score on your board exams was one way, but I think they changed it to a pass/fail instead of a graded system. Besides testing scores, you have to add more to your residency application which you will have to get outside of your medical school curriculum: US clinical experience, letters of recommendation, research papers, etc. Not to mention you will be competing with other foreign medical graduates that may have had a medical education more in line with the US or more competitive. Its not all bad though, which you will be presented with more often than the downside, so I’ll assume that you have. Many just stay in Mexico and some become great doctors that may even be better prepared than the average US doctor. I’m not saying that you can’t become a well prepared doctor by getting a medical education in Mexico, what i’m saying is that doing so will not make it easier overall to become a doctor in the US, and the disadvantages are important enough to outweigh the advantages. Now talking about specific medical schools in Mexico, some are bad, others really bad, but you can find good ones. In general they are not the best education you can get, and I would specifically avoid Universidad Xochicalco. I wish I could say otherwise since that is the school I got my medical education from, and although I’m hurting myself in saying it, its not a good university in general. The university you get your education from is critical, specially when there are many that attract students by offering easy entrance for a higher tuition but lack in quality of education.

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Yeah, I know many who have taken his prep course and have not passed USMLE step 1. Not sure about the 90% pass rate he is claiming here.

Your statement is full of grammatical erros! :-)

The mexican med school is after the highschool, same as an accelerated program. The most of the programs has 4-5 years of medical education (2 of basic sciences and 2 or 3 of Clinical Knowledge in Hospital) one year of undergraduate rotating internship and the last year of medical social service in a primary care unit in a low-income community, hospital or clinical research center. A total of 6 or 7 years of education.

Oh, and I forgot. During the Internship many hospitals want the Pregraduated physicians already had more or less deep knowledge in IM.

AvidiaNirvana what do you mean?

I'm sorry but I'd rather be sick for a couple days than a whole week; in Mexico, it's given the choice if I want pills meaning taking antibiotics for a week or just get a couple of shots & be up & running in 2 or 3 days...ps what experience have you have with Mexican doctors to come to that conclusion.???

Why?

@SE92114 UAG is known to producing mediocre professionals and they will not get residency if they plan on coming back to the US to practice. They CAN become a practicing physician in the US but they will be spending a lot of time validating their courses. Healthcare in mexico and poor countries where there are a lack of priorities in standards in education and healthcare---- are not the best. Cheaper is not always better. Canada is not one of those poor countries. This shit needs to be out there more before people waste their life.

@@coffeepandacat you are absolutely wrong. UAG is great