Colombia or Peru?

[TexasFool]

Has anyone ever heard of a student (from the USA) going to colombia or peru to medical school?

Ha escuchado alquien de una persona que estudiaba en una escuela medica en colombia o peru?

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[boricua_doc]

Why would you want to do so?

Anyways, I know a lot of american students studying in the Dominican Republic. Check out the UNIBE School of Medicine website and the INTEC School of Medicine Website, both at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.


http://www.unibe.edu.do/school_of_medicine/default.asp

http://www.intec.edu.do/medicina/index.html

Hope this helps.

 

[TexasFool]

Hey thanks. My girlfriend and I were thinking of living in Colombia if I don't get into school in the USA because she's from colombia but I am thinking about DR also. looks good because I can get loans. I speak spanish so that's not a problem. I got some F's in my transcript a long time ago (almost all A's in the last 3 years) that seem to be getting me a lot of rejections so I might be studying in latin america next year.

I honestly don't care where I end up practicing, I'd be willing to live a simple life in a latin american country and in fact I'd rather live in the country where I study as long as I have the ability to pay my bills and travel every once in a while.

 

[deleted123544]

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[Micomicon]

Hey thanks. My girlfriend and I were thinking of living in Colombia if I don't get into school in the USA because she's from colombia but I am thinking about DR also. looks good because I can get loans. I speak spanish so that's not a problem. I got some F's in my transcript a long time ago (almost all A's in the last 3 years) that seem to be getting me a lot of rejections so I might be studying in latin america next year.

I honestly don't care where I end up practicing, I'd be willing to live a simple life in a latin american country and in fact I'd rather live in the country where I study as long as I have the ability to pay my bills and travel every once in a while.

I respect your idealistic veiw of life, but, I'm a last year student in Colombia. It's OK that you don't care too much about money, because the payment for general practitioneers is too low, like 2000000 a month if you are lucky.
The practice is frustrating as a GP, you can't even had an urine culture for a pyelonephritis being a GP.
Nonetheless, I'd say our quality of med education is very respectable and has plenity of oportunities for the intelligent student.