1. Johns Hopkins University
2. Harvard University
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. Washington University in St. Louis
5. University of California, San Francisco
6. Duke University
7. Stanford University
8. University of Washington
9. Yale University
10. Columbia University
The training mode of doctors in the United States and Canada: four-year undergraduate course+four-year medical college MD+ three to eight years of clinical internship and hospitalization training = = 1 1 ~ 16 years. Because it is a special high-standard major, most clinical medical schools in the United States and Canada do not consider foreign students at all, and the tuition fees are expensive and they do not provide scholarships. Take the clinical medical college in the United States as an example: the tuition fee alone is $65,438 +0.6 ~ 0.22 million, and the insurance premium and living expenses are even more. It is hard to afford without financial strength, even though most of our citizens rely on federal loans to meet the high tuition fees.
In principle, both the United States and Canada recognize China's five-year bachelor's degree in medical school, and China's medical school graduates can be qualified to take the clinical doctor's license examination in the United States and Canada, but unfortunately, most of China's medical school graduates can't pass this qualification examination, or they can't compete with their domestic medical school graduates in the residency program after passing the written examination, which is not only related to the culture and system, but also reflects the training quality of Chinese medical schools to some extent. Even so, there are still a few medical college graduates from China who have obtained medical qualifications in the United States and Canada, but their efforts and sweat are unmatched by others.
Unlike medical schools in China, you generally have to have at least one bachelor's degree to apply for medical schools in Canada and the United States. In the United States and Canada, the admission requirements of any medical school are more difficult than those of other majors. Medical schools in Canada, in particular, are the most difficult to get into in the world. Your first bachelor's degree must be good (GPA must be at least 3.7, that is, at least A-), and you have completed university courses such as biology, chemistry, physics and humanities. The course load of undergraduates is five courses/semester for at least two years, which means that undergraduates with too little course load are generally not eligible to apply for medical school! ! Achievement is only one aspect. Extracurricular hobbies and long-term volunteer experience are very important, which have high requirements for the applicant's social experience, cultural language and personality. The last stage of the interview is the hardest for me! ! Oh, you must pass the special entrance examination of MCAT medical college with high scores.
Medical college is usually a four-year program, and after four years of primary license study, it begins to practice as a resident. The salary during this internship is very low (about 40 thousand/year), which is also a maddening period. If you just want to be a family health care doctor, you can practice-stay in hospital for 2-3 years. If you want to be a specialist, you must practice-stay in hospital for at least 5 years, and the internship period must be better than the previous medical license, among which neurosurgery and plastic surgery must practice-stay in hospital for 8 years. So it is not difficult for you to understand why the process of becoming a doctor is a long process of spirit, body and perseverance. Compared with China, being a doctor in North America is much stricter, but because of this, the income of doctors, especially their social status, is very high. As far as salary is concerned, the average annual salary of family doctors is 6.5438+0.8 million, and that of surgeons is several hundred thousand or even 6.5438+0.8 million.
Due to the high standards and status of doctors, excellent local students in North America are eager for medical schools, and the competition is in a white-hot state. Non-native applicants are obviously at a disadvantage in cultural language and various soft powers, which are very important qualities of medical schools.
Many domestic doctors can't go to clinical medical schools after coming to Canada, so they have to study MSC and PHD, but they can only do basic medical research in the laboratory, and they can't be regarded as medical students in medical schools. When they return to China, they may say that they are doctors of medicine, but this is not the case. In fact, their income and status are far from those of doctors.