Category: IMGs
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How to Fill Out Your Match Application
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The Match process is a crucial milestone for medical students. Discover essential tips for crafting a standout application, including personal statements, letters of recommendation, and effective program research to help you succeed in your residency journey. Good luck!
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The Best Resolutions for Healthcare Students in 2025
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Welcome, future clinicians and caregivers, to 2025! While it may seem old-fashioned, setting resolutions is more than just making a list to forget by the end of January. It’s about sculpting your path to becoming the best version of yourself, both personally and professionally, while setting the stage for a…
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USMLE® Step 1 Exam: A Guide for International Medical Students
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As an international medical graduate (IMG) student with the goal to study and practice in the United States, your path to applying to US-based medical residency programs involves additional steps. In today’s Osmosis blog, we’re looking at the process for taking the USMLE® Step 1 Exam and sharing tips and…
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How IMGs can Navigate Upcoming Changes to the USMLE®
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The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) is changing! How will this affect residency applications and timelines? International medical graduates (IMGs) already have extra application steps and changes may add some new challenges. But, the USMLE changes for IMG don’t have to be scary – we’re here to walk you…
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Being a Medical Student When Disaster Strikes
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Pandemics, protests, fires, and explosions were among the many catastrophes we faced in 2020. In this article, OMEF George Katoul al Rahbani dives deeper into the role of the medical student in the middle of all these crises, giving a personal account of what life has been like for him…
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How to Prepare for and Pass USMLE® Step 2 CK as an IMG
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With USMLE® Step 1 becoming pass/fail and USMLE Step 2 CS on hiatus, there’s a greater need for International Medical Graduates who wish to practice medicine in the US to do well on the USMLE Step 2 CK exam. In today’s blog, Osmosis Medical Education Fellow and Regional Lead, Santiago…
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OET Exam Preparation: What You Need to Know
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As of January 26, 2021, the USMLE Step 2CS examination was permanently canceled. In response, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, or ECFMG®, devised five pathways to allow qualified international medical graduates (IMG) to acquire ECFMG certification. These five pathways require applicants to attain a satisfactory score on the Occupational…
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Overcoming My Fear: Life as an International Medical Student
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On the long road to becoming a physician, there isn’t just one path. Choosing to go to med school internationally was not the path Elizabeth Armenis originally envisioned taking, but she’s diving in headfirst. In this article, Liz (who you may remember from our recent Instagram takeover!) discusses the fears…