The student's MCAT score is an important part of their admission requirements, as well as general eligibility criteria. In addition to the eligibility criteria discussed in Chapters 1 and 2, a foreign graduate medical school must meet additional requirements in order to participate in the Direct Loan Program. This includes having a degree that signifies both the completion of the academic requirements to begin practicing in a given profession and a level of professional skill higher than that normally required to obtain a bachelor's degree. A professional license is also usually required.
Examples of a professional degree include, but are not limited to, Pharmacy (Pharm, D. OR D, M, D. OR J, D. To be eligible for the Direct Loan Program, a foreign graduate medical school must be an independent foreign institution or a component of a foreign university whose sole mission is to provide an educational program that leads to a degree of doctor of medicine, doctor of osteopathic medicine, or equivalent.
Public, private, nonprofit, and for-profit foreign graduate medical schools can participate in the Direct Loan Program. It must meet the general eligibility and participation requirements of foreign institutions; it must have equipped facilities and adequate personnel to provide students with comprehensive clinical training and medical instruction in the classroom; it must have the approval of all medical licensing boards and evaluation bodies whose opinions are considered relevant by the Department; and as part of its clinical training, it cannot offer more than two elective subjects consisting of no more than eight weeks per student on a site located in a foreign country other than the country in which the main campus is located or in the United States, unless that location is included in the accreditation of a medical program accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). The school must also name only those faculty members whose academic credentials equal the credentials required of teachers who teach courses the same or similar in medical schools in the United States; they have graduated during classes each of the two twelve-month periods immediately preceding the date the Department receives the request for determination of eligibility from the school; no part of the program can have what would be an undergraduate level in the United States; and Educational programs, including changes in clinical training programs, and Supervisory Agencies and in formal affiliation agreements with hospitals and clinics (for more information, see the analysis in the Clinical Training Requirements section); publish all languages in which teaching is offered. The NCFMEA is an operating committee of medical experts established by the U.
S. UU. Department of Education to determine whether medical school accreditation standards used in other countries are comparable to those applied to medical schools in the United States in order to assess the eligibility of accredited foreign graduate medical schools to participate in the Direct Loan Program. The NCFMEA does not review or accredit individual graduate foreign medical schools.
A request for review from a foreign country is voluntary. In addition, a foreign graduate medical school must determine and require necessary consents from all students accepted for admission, for whom they must report certain data according to collection and presentation requirements described in Data Collection and Reporting. The USMLE is the two-step exam for obtaining a medical license in the U. That provides a comprehensive assessment of a person's medical knowledge and skills.
Step 1 evaluates knowledge and application of basic scientific concepts, and step 2-CK evaluates knowledge of principles of clinical science. Graduates from medical schools located outside the U. And Canada must pass Step 1 and Step 2-CK to become certified by ECFMG. The ECFMG certification is also necessary to enter a medical residency program accredited by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and to obtain an unrestricted license to practice medicine in United States.
Passing rate scores must be submitted to Department by April 30 each year. For information on presenting approval scores, see Collecting and Submitting Data. A passing score is minimum passing score as defined by ECFMG or, for Canadian schools, USMLE Management Committee. Schools that lose eligibility for this reason can reapply for participation in Direct Loan Program after one year if they can show they meet pass rate requirement.
Law exempts from USMLE pass rate requirement foreign graduate medical schools located in Canada and foreign graduate medical schools that have clinical training program that was approved by state on January 1, 1992 and that continue operate clinical training program at least one state that approves program. Citizenship rate requirement states that foreign graduate medical schools are not eligible to participate in Direct Loan Program unless previous year at least 60 percent school's full-time students and at least 60 percent class that most recently graduated from school were not people who weren't Americans, Americans. For first qualification foreign graduate medical school must include denominator all students who enrolled as full-time students.
