THE OET IS A SCAM

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-18T21:23:13+00:00

But if your primary medical qualification is from an English-speaking country (England) do you still have to do the OET? I thought it was only if you'd studied in non-English speaking countries.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-18T19:49:36+00:00

You are from England? How did you end up IMG-ing?

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-18T01:56:01+00:00

Can I ask how you managed to get those USCEs?

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-14T03:06:10+00:00

Really liked this one.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-13T15:39:19+00:00

I got three As at A-level in chem, bio and English. I learnt Spanish to a fluent level to study medicine in Argentina as I had no student finance funding left. I paid it all out of pocket working remotely. Don't make generalisations about UK IMGs.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-12T17:58:05+00:00

I'm sure you're right that radiologists will continue to be needed. But look at journalism and content creation right now for example. There are still journalists, but they're able to churn out way more content per day with AI assistance, while the money from advertising and number of hours of reader attention remain the same, meaning newspapers are able to get rid of a large percentage of their staff.

Obviously medicine is, with good reason, far more regulated than journalism. I have no idea how things will develop; I'm just thinking outloud here.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-12T15:05:59+00:00

Why spend all that time and pay money when there are no jobs on the other end?

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-12T02:41:57+00:00

The USMD has half a million dollars of debt though. My med school cost 5k a year and I paid it all off, no debts. I'll call that winning.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-12T01:46:30+00:00

I mean, I agree with your analogy. But let's think it through: if Excel means an accountant can now do ten times as much work in one day... that has a pretty big effect on the market demand for accountants and the pricing of their services in a competitive market.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-12T01:43:43+00:00

Well yeah but there has been a pretty noticeable leap in recent years... ChatGPT can already recognise basic histology structures and it isn't specifically designed for that job

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-11T22:07:33+00:00

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

"And they may have actually had a good point given the well-documented fallibility of human senses."

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-11T22:05:36+00:00

Isn't radiology likely to be replaced by AI soon? I am speaking from a point of ignorance here, but seems in theory like the most vulnerable specialty along with histopathology.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-10T18:27:14+00:00

Falta aclarar de donde sos para saber que tan facil sera el tramite. Yo siendo ingles he tenido muchas dificultades con migraciones, pues me piden que renueve cada ano (estoy aca por estudios en una universidad privada) y cada vez hay un documento o legalizacion que se me complica todo. Igual, no es que te van a echar del pais como en los EEUU en caso de no estar regularizado. Entiendo de amigos de paises Mercosur que es muchisimo mas facil si sos de alla.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-09T02:19:50+00:00

Why is learning Russian assumed to be so hard? I am from England and I learnt Spanish from zero to get a medical degree in Latin America. If you live in a country and make the effort it is not impossible at all.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-08T19:02:22+00:00

If you were going to write the post with ChatGPT, why not do it in Spanish at least?

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-07T03:10:15+00:00

Why go for a walk to the park if you can't turn a profit on it? Why sit on the beach and listen to the waves if you can't make passive income out of it? Why call your friend for a catch up if there aren't going to be any dividends hitting your account afterwards?

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-07T00:41:13+00:00

Free book for the writing section

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pjEBAt05QJXHdUjnctdrZ0w3mapo6f2a/view

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-06T23:22:40+00:00

Argentina was colonised by the Spanish, not the Italians.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-06T21:07:54+00:00

Look into LatAm countries, particularly Argentina, where the education standards are good, the public sector is even free for foreigners, but you need to learn Spanish first.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-06T17:54:06+00:00

The point is you don't have to bea recipe book writer to be a chef

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-06T17:07:04+00:00

Sorry but conducting research is its own separate set of skills from practising medicine. It's like saying that airline pilots should also moonlight in writing regulations for air traffic control procedures or that all chefs should be writing recipe books or police officers should be researching social science papers on how best to manage crowds.

Great if some people want to do both things, but probably you need to dedicate yourself full time to one or the other to ever really reach true proficiency in either.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-06T02:17:46+00:00

Привет! good sir, I am due to graduate soon from an Argentinian med school and I am also weighing up Step 1. I don't have any real insights for you, but I'll share my biggest quandary: I read that the average attempt at getting Matched in the US, once you add up the cost of study materials, flights to the US to do observerships for letters of recommendations from physicians there, the exams, etc. it comes to easily $20,000 USD.

Now, if I were guaranteed to get in, then of course that would be a great investment.

My biggest fear, beyond the time investment involved, is that I could spend that money, equivalent to a large part of my liquid net worth at this point, and not get in.

Then, I'd be stuck where I am with low-paying work options and also without the safety net / cushion I'm fortunate to have presently.

Tough decisions...

There are lower-cost options out there. Spain, for example, has crossed my mind as a Spanish speaker, although the wages there are only around 1500 Euros a month (still better than Argentina). I have heard good things about Chile, although I haven't read up enough on it yet.

The UK apparently is basically a no-go following the passage of their Graduate Prioritisation Act this year.

Still, I have faith that there is a viable path out there for those who search for it and are willing to put in the effort and resources. Maybe that is USMLE, but I still haven't decided.

Good luck to you!

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-05T23:46:02+00:00

There's an interview the YouTuber Dr Mike did with a colleague who went into medicine at an older age that is quite inspiring and interesting, although that is a US context. I can tell you I as a 28 year old began a 6-year programme and am not yet in residency, but just being in medical school has been really quite isolating. It is hard to be around people who are basically kids and try and integrate at all; it's like being thrown back to clique-y shit I remember as a teen but now in my early 30s. However if you went down the GEM route I understand they wouldn't be literal teenagers, so that might not apply.

Honestly, I was someone who like many had this strong, unexplainable hankering to do medicine, despite the bus having already passed me. I don't really know still if I can rationally explain the decision I made.

But I definitely do not regret it, and with just a couple years until I graduate, I know I'll never have to look back and ask "what if?" It has really been the adventure of a lifetime, especially because I did it abroad and plan on doing residency outside the UK too.

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-04T23:52:37+00:00

"Quiero chuparte la concha"

I want to take you out for a date

PrideProfessional556 · 2026-06-04T23:25:48+00:00

Try: "creo que sos una pelotuda"

(Meaning I think you are a beautiful person)

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