What are the options for someone graduating from, say, the Kursk Medical School Pharmacy for practicing in the U.S.?
There are some Americans I know studying here in the Philippines at the University of San Carlos in Cebu. I am an American, and last year some of US pharmacy students mentioned hat I should look into. At that time I did not see pharmacy as an overseas option; only nursing and medicine. affter months of research and scouting all around the Philippines and colleges and univeristies (except for Mindanao; I did not dare go there; to scared), I realize that nursing and pharmacy are probably better options overseas than medicine. Medicine is doable, but the logistics of this make it so complexed when coming back to the USA.
When you graduate from a 5 year overseas pharmacy college/university (some might actually be called PharmD, Doctor of Pharmacy, or plainly Clinical Pharmacy degree), thenyou go back to the USA and take the board exam, just like all the Filipino nurses do when thy come to the USA and take the NCLEX (HA!! Cant beat them join them). In our case, we would take the board exam for pharmacists. If you pass, you go out and get a job, I think you have to volunteer 1500 hours or something (depending on your state) before you actually get the licese. Then, that is it. Check your states local board of education for information about licensure.
Your tuition is a fraction of the cost, your experience with other languages grows, maybe you might meet a Ukraine, Russian or Chinese husband or wife (hehehe); you go back to the US and can tailor to a niche market in the language that you learnt while you were studying. THATs it. I hope I answered your question. I have more details, but it is 5:39am in the morning here.
Personally, I really and hating the Philippines, I spent a year and 4 months here, and it is just a sad case of a story; so many old white men with big huge bellies walking around with young and small Filipino women; and they are always the ugly ones. When they get old I think they just dont care about beauty anymore. If you go to the Philippines, just has a small stomach with toomuch of the native beause they WILL ask you for money.
If you want to learn Cebuano, there is a school called SPEEDTALK at Banilad Town Center in Banilad near Country Mall in Cebu City. It is for $200 pesos for 1.5 months. You will, indeed, learn the language with them. They also have Mandarin and Japanese. They are really good. I know a Filipino architect who knows Mandarin from SPEEDTALK.
Anyway, I moved to Manila to learn Tagalog (they can understand Tagalog in Cebu, but they are not good at speaking it, and they sound very different from people of the capital. Cebuano can be compared to Texans with less smoking, and Tagalog speaking peoples can be compared to New Yorkers, but WITH heavy smoking).