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Comment author: CarlShulman 27 September 2013 06:37:40AM 7 points [-]

American medical wages are above the world average, but medicine is one of the highest paid professions throughout the developed world, including in Canada (and yes, moreso than pharma PhD researchers on average, especially if one pursues a more lucrative specialty). Probably this should not be the determining factor.

The outside view would be that probably American medical wages will not plummet in the next 6-8 years, although that's a fairly irrelevant question (a career extends for decades).

or goes to a medical school in the Caribbean (where getting into them is apparently easier than mainland medical schools, but to complete the training takes six years)

These schools tend not to do as well in placements for residencies.

Comment author: ITakeBets 27 September 2013 12:23:05PM *  6 points [-]

These schools tend not to do as well in placements for residencies.

This is a significant understatement-- ~95% of US MD students match into residencies; for foreign grads it's around 50% and likely to fall further. Don't go to med school abroad if you want to practice in the US.

Incidentally, I've just started med school in the US on a full tuition scholarship and am willing to answer questions related to admissions.

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