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I have a situation for friend that he wanted me to post here. He unfortunately did not match and wanted to fill the void with some research experience, so it doesn't look like he did nothing for a year. He is a US citizen, but did his med school abroad at a place that didn't really have research opportunities, meaning he has no research experience. Where can he find research positions? The specialty at this point doesn't matter, just that the position has to be real, not an entry level spot cleaning petri dishes and keeping inventory. I just want to help this person out, so any input you have would be great.
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it's hard now because of the economic crisis but if his family knows somebody in a hospital that could work, but the best bet is VOLUNTEER RESEARCH. the hospital doesn't have to pay you and they get free work.
i got my clinical research before the economic slump (now the whole medical center is on hiring freeze), but i am currently doing volunteer research (mostly data entry, but it still counts) at a government psych facility. the best part is you go when you want to so i can still keep my medical assistant job.
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so where can he find volunteer research positions?
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you have to look around, call people or human resources that kind of thing
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Once the application season starts everyone here will get familiar with this word .It was method used in 18th century and is still used now....Its called RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.
Lets take a typical candidate for a residency interview. He is young,intelligent,has good scores on USMLE and is from No.1 medical college in India.He has aspirations to be one among the best doctors in US.
Here comes the application season ....he is all set apply....but hey...USA doesnt givea damn to his Indian Clinical Experience from the top notch healthcare set-up in India.Why??
Is Indian doctor any less than any american doctor?
Are indian doctors scoring 95 on USMLE not capable enough to match an american scoring 85?
The truth be told.USA has a way to say 'no' to an IMG....and the best EXCUSE is "we are looking for candidates that have US clinical Experience"
Our young intelligent doctor from India tries to find something useful to be called as US clinical experience ....first he ends up getting cheated by some fake website offering "hands on clinical experience"
then he ends up doing some unpaid research for some greedy american doctor who didnt even have a heart to pay the poor guy for his effort....Why did our indian doc do that?? Ofcource to get that "hands on experience" the fat coordinator told him to get.
He is happy that he will get some good LOR now....but no....he gets shocked on reading his LOR.It has nothing specific about him except for mentioning "Dr.XYZ was a part of our research team from April 2008 to April 2009".The poor guy spends some time reading between lines to find something like "skill" , "hands on experience". but he doesnt find anything useful on his LOR.Left in tears and nothing to do other thank say 'thanks' to that White doctor.
Is it not RACIAL DISCRIMINATION by USA to disregard your Degree and experience .What makes them think we are QUACKS from our counrty unless a WHITE DOCTOR certifies in his LOR that Dr.XYZ from India has some clinical skill??
RETHINK WHAT UR ABOUT TO DO IN THE NAME OF USCE!
