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Hey everyone, hope everything is going well
I'm a 4th year med student in a 7-year MBBS program in Cairo, Egypt. I'm planning to take a licensing exam and practice abroad. But the thing is I don't know where to go. I'm currently in the US temporarily as a research assistant (some sort of summer training in research) and I was really thinking of USMLE as a great option for me to come practice and live here after I graduate from Egypt. However, I think PLAB is also a great option, and UK is a great country to live in (but I don't know if it's also interesting in terms of practicing there). Plus, PLAB is so much easier. There are also other options like Canada, Australia, Germany...
I don't want to keep confusing myself but it seems that there are many options and I don't know which country I would want to live in after I graduate, so I want to take a step that will open many doors in different countries. Not sure what that should be. Also, I don't want to end up doing an exam for a country that doesn't take many IMG, such as Canada.
Should I go ahead and take USMLE and maybe later take the PLAB if I want to? Or are there other better plans? Also, please bear in my that I'm an international student.
I'm a 4th year med student in a 7-year MBBS program in Cairo, Egypt. I'm planning to take a licensing exam and practice abroad. But the thing is I don't know where to go. I'm currently in the US temporarily as a research assistant (some sort of summer training in research) and I was really thinking of USMLE as a great option for me to come practice and live here after I graduate from Egypt. However, I think PLAB is also a great option, and UK is a great country to live in (but I don't know if it's also interesting in terms of practicing there). Plus, PLAB is so much easier. There are also other options like Canada, Australia, Germany...
I don't want to keep confusing myself but it seems that there are many options and I don't know which country I would want to live in after I graduate, so I want to take a step that will open many doors in different countries. Not sure what that should be. Also, I don't want to end up doing an exam for a country that doesn't take many IMG, such as Canada.
Should I go ahead and take USMLE and maybe later take the PLAB if I want to? Or are there other better plans? Also, please bear in my that I'm an international student.