*Updated March 2016* I know in my last post I went into the difficulty Caribbean med students have at getting interviews-- for every interview offer we receive, we tend to get 10-15 rejections. Within every specialty, you have the set number of hospitals who are historially IMG friendly and many Caribbean applicants will be getting many of the same interviews at these institutions, however people still can secure a couple more interviews at less IMG friendly programs that are intrigued enough to offer an interview. Factors that can lead to these interviews include: board scores that can't be ignored,'home field advantage' (if you are originally from the area of the program), or you know someone/ have a connection.

While going through the match lists from AUC, St. Geroge's, Ross, etc I pulled out the most IMG friendly pediatric programs that people from all these institutions were interviewing at.

Aside from a few impressive matches for SGU pediatric hopefuls, most of the other Caribbean med schools had the same matches. I didn't see any real outliers. There's always exceptions of course, but the vast majority of programs were the same across the board.

Hence this makes me think that people interested in pediatrics will be able to save a ton of $$$$ on applications by just knowing which programs to apply to. Without further ado, here's a list! Interviews I Got: hence, I know for a fact these are Caribbean friendly -John Stroger Hospital of Cook County Program (Chicago, IL) -Hurley Medical Center/ Michigan State University Program (Flint, MI) -Western Michigan University School of Medicine Program (Kalamazoo, MI) -Atlantic Health Program (Morristown, NJ) -Jersey Shore University Medical Center Program (Neptune, NJ) -St. Peter's University Hospital Program (New Brunswick, NJ) -Albany Medical Center Program (Albany, NY) -Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Program (Bronx, NY) -Nassau University Medical Center Program (East Meadow, NY) -New York Methodist Hospital Program (Brooklyn, NY) -Richmond University Medical Center Program (Staten Island, New York) -SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn Program (Brooklyn, NY) -SUNY at Stony Brook Program (Stony Brook, NY) -St. Barnabas Hospital Program (Bronx, NY) -Staten Island University Hospital Program (Staten Island, New York) -University at Buffalo Program (Buffalo, NY) -Case Western Reserve University (MetroHealth) Program (Cleveland, OH) -Marshfield Clinic- St.

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The list serves the purpose of giving you an idea of the programs that have historically been IMG-friendly. As outlined in the book “The International Medical Graduate’s Best Hope”, the authors do not advocate complete reliance on lists but rather encourage a one-on-one search of residency programs according to individual characteristics.

Joseph's Hospital Program (Marshfield, WI) Other Pediatric Programs Caribbean Students Matched At ( taken from AUC, AUA, Saba, Ross, St. George's, and St. Anonymous Hi Andrea, I love your blog. Fellow AUCer here. I would like to get some input from you. For the longest time, I wanted to go into peds, but during fourth year I completed an EM elective and fell in love with it.

However, my boards are mediocre although got high class rank, great LORs, extra-curriculars (research, publication). I mostly applied to EM, but still to several peds programs. EM sends out interview invites late (mid-October) but I already got peds interviews. I did not know about pre-match programs, and I just learned one of my peds interviews is at a pre-match program.

I really want to do EM, but my worry is what I would do if I was pre-matched in peds at that site. I saw on your list where you got interviews at that a couple were pre-match programs. How did it work for you? Did you get offers? Some of my friends suggested if I was to get at least 10 interviews, I should not accept an offer.

Since my boards aren't great, I doubt I will get even half as many invites as you did. I know it is all still hypothetical, but I would like to get as much input as possible so that by the time if I were presented with such a scenario, I will be able to make the best informed decision.

Taking the offer, I would wonder if I had gotten into an EM program. Not taking the offer and not matching at all, I would be eternally upset with my decision.