From Mexico to Northwestern: Clinical course fills gap
Eight American students who have been studying medicine in Mexico for two years are back in the United States continuing their training in a pilot program at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago.
All eight are Illinois residents who enrolled at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara (UAG), Mexico, because they had not been accepted by American medical schools. They have now proved their competence by passing the national examinations required of all American medical students entering their third year of training.
According to James E. Eckenhoff, MD, Northwestern University Medical School dean, "we cannot expand our entering [freshman] class without diluting the quality of the program.... We have decided, however, that we can bring additional people into the hospital training years."
Because UAG students do not receive as much clinical preparation during the first two years of training as their counterparts
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