Old IMG with U.S. citizenship – Best path
I recently spoke with an attending physician about doing an observership with him. He told me that observerships are essentially useless for older IMGs.
According to him, my best options would be either:
1- Go back to a Caribbean medical school for about 2 years to gain recent clinical experience and refresh my year of graduation, or
**2-**Return to my home country and practice there to obtain more recent clinical experience.
He also said that Internal Medicine has become very competitive and that most programs will filter me out because of my old year of graduation.
Nb: - got US CITIZENSHIP through naturalization
- Specialty of interest is IM
- yog 11
I’m honestly feeling lost and confused after hearing this, >!what do you think the best option for me?!<