Recent content by moo

Well it helps that I have Canadian citizenship. If you have US FP board certification, you can get certified (with no extra exams) by the CFPC. You may need to take the LMCCs though, except if you work in Ontario where they recognize the USMLE as equivalent. If you have no family in Canada...

Joined a practice. I did med school in the US. When I realized I could make way more in Canada, I jumped ship. All I can say is, don't be afraid of universal health care. You insure the whole population, you have a huge pool of potential patients, and patients who won't not seek out physicians...

Nope, I live in Vancouver. Smack dab in the middle of the city. You go rural, you can pull 700-800k+ before overhead (which will likely go down as a percentage the more you bill).

Move to Canada. I did, and I bill over 400K a year working 6 days a week with hospital work. After overhead, before taxes that's still about 300K. I know colleagues here who routinely bill 500-600K a year. Nowadays CAD = USD. Cost of living is a bit more expensive (but who cares if you're...

Hey don't worry, I got the same reject from UIC and I'm from a top 20 US school with good board scores. I shoulda listened to my advisor and should not have even applied there as I hear their program is not very good.

Arrowhead medical center, in Colton, CA for TY.

Just got an email from them (applied to prelim medicine). Anyone know why they are on probation?

If your goal is to get back to North America, going to a US school will be far better than going to an Australian school. While an Aussie school will undoubtedly give you a great education, logistically it will be much easier for you to attend a US school. Going to a US school will afford you...

I found a few errors but for the most part I think the questions were more reflective of the shelf than pretest. If you stick to the questions which are of a clinical vignette style, you should be fine. THe neurosurg chapter was especially good.

You do NOT need to take the evaluating exam as a US grad. You take the same steps to obtain a residency as a Canadian grad but as a US grad you will obviously have less support from your school's administration as they do not know much about the Canadian match. It will be up to you to research...

Actually, almost everyone I've talked to has given me the thumbs up. Even the gunner-surgery people in my class are congratulating me on my career choice. And even the surgeons I've worked with have been very supportive, although they all start out with some anesthesiology jokes, I can tell it's...

When I rotated through urology, I didn't think the residents or even the attendings had that great a lifestyle. It's probably better than most other surgical subspecialties though. For example, my resident would get in around 6am (I'd get in around 5:30), we'd round for an hour, then either go...

The CPSO and many Canadian students/physicians pretend to be all altruistic and say "oh we're not like the US which steals physicians from other countries." Well, I don't think it's called stealing when you bar your own citizens from coming back to practice medicine. Or when you invite people to...

I have a friend who graduated from HS when he was 13. Too young to be accepted to med school in North America, he went to Ireland for med school. Now he's a resident in ENT at UCLA. He's obviously very smart, but Canada won't take him...

If you are a US grad, you should be equivalent to Canadian grads in Ontario, AB, BC, and Qc. Thus you can match into the first round. Easiest way to do this is to match into an FP program in Canada (many unfilled positions after first round. And remember you are EQUIVALENT to Canadian grads in...