please advise!!! - hopelife

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Is It possible for a foriegn med grad. to practice medicine if he has HIV but successfuly passed all exams. Which specialities are comfortable for him? please advise him he wanted to take step 1 exam recently already registered.

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please any suggestion or idea!!!!!

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any body who can give any idea?

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please advise to keep on studying and spending money or not!

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hopelife, please check this link, it may give an idea about cdc rules hiv/hbv.
If I get more infos I will let you know.
Life is all about hope and fear.

http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/ed...iv-hbv.htm

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hopelife...plz calm down. U've posted this q 30 min back and wiithin th elast 7 min as sent 3 more. Relax....what medical problem you have is NONE of their business. U have the right to do what you want..thats ur constituitional right.

Nobody will ask you ur HIV status. U have the option to refuse testing too. But there is a provision which says that u shuldnt put ur patients at risk...that mean practising unsafe precautions when handling blood/ fluids etc.

I would say, staying off surgical disciplines should most probably eliminate this risk. So just prepare for ur exam and try to get a good score. Remember, what disease u have is a person thing....no one has the right to deny u based on ur condition.

You dont have to tell ur attending nor ur colleague either.....so dont worry too much...and with GOD's grace, maybe they might find a cure to HIV in the new millenium.

Take care.

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Thank you saonew i checked the site. It gives hope but i need more information. i mean if it is advisable to persuit the process of usmle, the matching and all other ups and downs.

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As adrenaline mentioned, nobody will ask the FMG about his/her hiv status and the test is done only after you signed a consent form.
since it is cleary written in Section II: Testing. Neither applicants, entrants, re-entrants, current students, nor visiting students will be required to undergo HIV testing.
Please advise the FMG to focus on study not his or her hiv status.

Everyone has a dream, "The American dream" to make it true.
I watch a documentaryon TV yeterday about an 11 old boy from india who has been working in cancer cure based on theory that he developed. http://www.rdfrights.com/programme.aspx?id=2540

Maybe this FMG will can work in research area to find the answer to all those people who are victim of this virus. There are a lot of opportinuty in america if you pass usmle, you can work as physician in many area.


LIfe is all about Hope, I hope that everyone dream will be true.

Please check one of my prefered link in this forum posted by dr yelito a few days back:

http://www.usmleforum.com/forum/message.php?id=147717

Good luck and May God Bless All of Us.

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Thank you adrenalin. Great that is what i believe.
are procedures like drowing blood considered as exposure prone procedures?