International medical graduates may wish to consider employment in some other health care provider category that does not require licensure, such as a medical assistant, while pursuing physician assistant licensure. Information concerning requirements to work as a medical assistant may be obtained by contacting the Medical Board of California at You may also wish to consider contacting the Welcome Back Program. This program works with international medical graduates to facilitate their re-entry into the health care delivery system, in some capacity.
Welcome Back works with program participants to assess their education, skills, and to identify alternative health professions that they may be suited for. The credit requirement must be fulfilled by the time of enrollment, not at the point of application.
Unmet prerequisite courses taken at a regionally-accredited U. Coursework can be in any subject matter. Science coursework is encouraged, but not required, in order to fulfill this criteria. Appropriate and current legal status with the U. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the U.
Department of Homeland Security is a prerequisite for enrollment and continued status as a student in the PA Program. See the Prerequisites section for more information. PDF Score Reports printed or received by mail are not recognized as official scores. Scores must be sent directly from the testing agency to School Code Anyone with any advice?
Will your credit hours be accepted? The answer is honestly "maybe". Many schools will require the TOEFL and transcripts translated by an approved translation service to apply. There also may be requirements for all prerequisites to be taken at schools in the US, which essentially makes your foreign degree "electives" at those schools.
The next question is, will a PA school accept you if the only purpose of you going to PA school is to get clinical experience for a US residency?
I seriously doubt they will waste the slot. They are faster, less paper work in terms of applications. Plus, you will not get much clin exp in the first year anyway. Instead, you will have to study a lot. Don't know where you are residing, but places like Chicago and NY are considered fmg friendly and may have opportunities for someone like you. This is the hardest part about writing my personal statement-- proving to admissions that I'm not in it to enhance my residency chances.
I'm married and at a stage in my life where I want to settle down with a good career in healthcare. Being a PA fulfills everything I want to be a primary care clinician , much like being a family medicine doctor would. FWIW- i was born and raised here in the States and did undergrad here. Went overseas for my medical degree. I just hope admissions committees can see our resilience and commitment to medicine. I don't think FMGs are the scum of the earth--hardly!
There are unused primary care match slots every year, so I suspect that FMGs simply don't have enough willingness to relocate to where the residencies are granted, they're not great slots, but hey--beggars can't be choosers or are simply so poor candidates that even during the scramble residency programs would rather have an empty slot.
If there's any discrimination, it's in the residency programs. FMGs who know and can articulate what PA vs. Those who can't No doubt it's very hard work, and so is PA training. This was tried briefly years ago, with very poor results. Further more, it is a blatant stab at PA education. Yet in the US there is strict quality control, accreditation, and oversight of PA education. This is not the case for medical programs in all countries.
But that is an example of when title overshadows training. PAs practice medicine and are licensed under the same state medical boards as physicians. If some physicians see that as invalid, I guess they see their own license as invalid too. They can't have it both ways.
I wish you luck on your endeavor and hope that you support the PA profession, should you become one.
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