The medical schools of Saint Kitts and Nevis have a match rate of 45%. Look at some of the more recent posts.
In 2013 SGU had around a 66% match rate for US-IMGs. Imagine that. Grades, intellectual ability, athletic ability, whatever. Match percentage is reportedly every bit as good as the US, and our step pass rates are just as good as well. Here are how IMGs are fairing getting interviews. That being said, we tend to be limited to less competitive programs and specialties unless our scores are outstanding.
Here is a famous blog by a Caribbean student. So out of 952 students, on average 350 of them are taking at least 1 extra year to get through the program. Yeah, something is off about it. Except that 29% of them find residency OUTSIDE of the match (as reported by them). At worst, you will literally ruin your life with crushing debt and no degree or no residency to show for it. Also, did you matriculate directly out of your undergrad program? (Ross, AUC, etc.). Not only are these numbers not good, they seem to be going down over the years as they increase class size and the match gets more competitive everyday. Because they cannot get into a US MD. Lastly, what are you doing to fund your education? We lose a LOT of students down here because the requirements are lower to get into the Caribbean school, but it is just as difficult as a US med school.
The Cayman Islands have St. Matthew's medical school that has an impressive 31.8% match rate. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. This being said, Carib schools face challenges that US schools don't, but if you can get it together and commit to working harder than your peers, then you can do quite well. Biggest misconception about Caribbean medical schools? At best, you will match into a non-toxic residency program. What is a for profit Caribbean school? If you screwed up in school in undergrad, take advantage of the experience and try to use it to learn that humans are not above one another. That guy at the Million Dollar Mistake blog wasn't that smart or he would've been able to make something "better" happen for himself (I use the term "better" lightly - I don't think primary care is actually worse than or beneath the other specialties. Imagine that.. Saba had always fascinated me and ever since coming to medical school, I knew this was one of the islands I definitely wanted to visit before I left. Reddit's home for wholesome discussion related to pre-medical studies. r/premed (and honestly the entire premed population ranging from SDN to people still using hotmail and DSL internet) has needed a resource for many years that shows what going to a for-profit medical school in the Caribbean is really like. The sad thing is i've met a couple carrib students that talk like this. What are some other match rates? I would estimate SGU has around a 40-50% match rate and a 55-66% overall residency placement from students who start to students who actually end up in residency.
So be it. Edit: lol okay I can settle for that link title. Tuition is as posted on the saba website, but living costs vary depending on what city I am doing my rotation in. That's scary. A lot of people focus on the match % and the overall numbers that they completely neglect where these students are matching and in what fields. US Seniors matching had a 50% match rate INTO THEIR FIRST CHOICE.
That is such a massive discrepancy. More on this later. Discover if this path to medicine is a good option. Moreover, this post will focus on attrition rates, match rates, debt, and eventually where graduates may end up. Also this post is about offshore medical schools in the Caribbean, not the regional medical schools that are for Caribbean people meant to practice in the Caribbean. Here is another version of this exact write up by /u/Ryndo which is amazing. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Pre-medical students might be considering Caribbean medical schools as a way to become a U.S. doctor. Since its foundation, just about 2500 understudies have procured the level of medicine and wellbeing sciences from Saba. They accept many who wouldn't get in elsewhere, but they fail students who can't keep up without mercy. Etc. If anyone has any concrete evidence, numbers, etc please let me know. Here is Gonnif's advice from SDN. And this is SGU , one of, if not the "top" carib MD program. With the admin change in Ross, their class size is in the 3-400 range these days and the fail rate is huge. If so, how would you justify it? Ok I used a lot of numbers here. On island, living expenses are usually 5-600 dollars rent per month and groceries are somewhat more expensive than home. Now the actual match rate doesn't exist because SGU doesn't want you to know, but there's a HUGE disconnect between students who enter, students who actually are enrolled in the program, students who match, and students who SOAP into something. So if you had 950 extrapolated over 4 years you'd have 3,800 students but there's 5,200 overall students in a 4 YEAR PROGRAM. Of them, the average GPA and MCAT is around a 3.2-3.4 and a 24-27. You need sleep consolidation to learn, and on top of that you cannot take exams on medschool level sleep deprived, you'll fail out and you'll be $100,000 in debt. Doctor: "I believe in: First, Do No Harm.Then, Beneficience, Autonomy, and Justice." I'll compare DO versus Carib MD later.
We find out own housing and such. "Scored a competitive job as a physician scribe in Minneapolis" LMAO. Well how do they match? My doctor back in the US is from the caribbean and she did her residency at Yale. You should do a full AMA thread if youre legit. You know how many people would KILL to make at least $200k/year in an extremely stable job market? I asked students of Saba, Ross, and AUC and from what I learned saba was the most competitive. Whatever you do, do not do EdInvest loans, they are a massive scam. AUC was disorganized when I was applying while saba was on point, so I went with saba. At the end of the day it's up to us here at r/premed to give a warning and information and you as an individual to make an informed risk.