What if you DON'T want to return?

[Jochi1543]

Just curious - we talk a lot about staying in the States after graduation for those who are looking at US schools.....but what is it like to practice medicine, say, in the Caribbean? What are the average hours? Average salaries? Taxes on those salaries? Do their residency programs take foreign students as well? How realistic is it to get a work visa and eventually citizenship status that way?

I wouldn't mind living somewhere in the Bahamas....:cool: :p

[p0tus]

Hey Jochi,

Since most people on these forums are intent on returning to either Canada or the U.S., you may be able to get some of your questions answered at http://www.valuemd.com/index.php since there are many more applicants to Carribean schools there.

Good luck!

[Jochi1543]

Hey Jochi,

Since most people on these forums are intent on returning to either Canada or the U.S., you may be able to get some of your questions answered at http://www.valuemd.com/index.php since there are many more applicants to Carribean schools there.

Good luck!
Thanks, I'll look into that! I don't have a strong connection to Canada at this point, and while I lived in the US for 5 years and know many people there, I don't have close relatives or anything like that there either, so I'm pretty open to the idea of staying in the Caribbean if I were to do med there - that is, if the income and lifestyle of a doctor there are reasonably comparable to the situation in the US or Canada.