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<blockquote data-quote="Thersites" data-source="post: 1121419" data-attributes="member: 11045">At the heart of the OP, stop focusing medicine as you sole focus in life. Branch out and enjoy yourself. YOu will burning out as time goes if your focus on medicine as sole existence in life. I would advise not heading to the US to practice medicine. There is lot of trade offs and costs for examinations and certifications to be in medicine. Let me states some of the hurdles you have to go through.&nbsp; First you have to take all 3 steps of the USMLE to be legible in the US. Second, you have to redo your training do to differences in US practice of medicine. Third, you have to go through 3-5 year residency depending on the program of your choice. Fourth, as foreign citizen, you are limited to programs that take J1 visa to be allow to stray in the country. This going to take good 2 years just to get prepare to apply for programs. As UK train doctor, you have ability to go to Commonwealth countries that are in need of well train doctors. You avoid having to go through all the bullshit being a US doctor as stated above. You can head down the Caribbean med schools and become a tutor or teacher down there as British doctors are one of the few to do physical exam well compare to US. You have options available.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thersites, post: 1121419, member: 11045"] At the heart of the OP, stop focusing medicine as you sole focus in life. Branch out and enjoy yourself. YOu will burning out as time goes if your focus on medicine as sole existence in life. I would advise not heading to the US to practice medicine. There is lot of trade offs and costs for examinations and certifications to be in medicine. Let me states some of the hurdles you have to go through. First you have to take all 3 steps of the USMLE to be legible in the US. Second, you have to redo your training do to differences in US practice of medicine. Third, you have to go through 3-5 year residency depending on the program of your choice. Fourth, as foreign citizen, you are limited to programs that take J1 visa to be allow to stray in the country. This going to take good 2 years just to get prepare to apply for programs. As UK train doctor, you have ability to go to Commonwealth countries that are in need of well train doctors. You avoid having to go through all the bullshit being a US doctor as stated above. You can head down the Caribbean med schools and become a tutor or teacher down there as British doctors are one of the few to do physical exam well compare to US. You have options available. [/QUOTE]

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