ECFMG 2024 Update | What Does This Mean for IMGs & FMGs?

There are changes coming in 2024 that will affect foreign-trained doctors’ ability to practice in the United States. Let’s discuss these changes and what you need to know if you’re an IMG or FMG with dreams of practicing in the US.

TIME STAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
00:52 ECFMG Certification 2024 Changes
02:55 The United Kingdom
04:52 What To Do If You’re an IMG

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[dfjunior]

Great vid Kevin! Just thought I’d add something. I’m a current med student at a uni in London and we just got an update a few days ago that we will still be able to register beyond 2024. The email read “The US Educational Commission on Foreign Medical Graduates has just announced it has changed its position regarding UK medical degrees and will continue to recognise UK primary medical qualifications for doctors who wish to practise in the US beyond 2024” so something to look into further for those UK med students

[captn_maverick]

Hi, Kevin! Thanks for taking up this topic! It was really important! Could you make more videos explaining the legal roadmaps to doing the residency and working in different parts of the world? Also it would be really cool to make a video about good places for residency for EU students, I study in small EU country, the Baltic states and I would like to do residency abroad and work abroad. I would love to know how could I emigrate and certify, or do residency and which country to.

[hongkaiwang]

I believe you have to take step1, step2ck and OET to be ECFMG certificated. Once ECFMG mails you the physical certification, you are eligible to apply for residency program.

[parth]

For ECFMG certification you needs to be graduate, Pass USMLE step 1, step 2CK, OET through pathway 1 to 6.
You can't just apply for certificate and get it.

[EBlack]

This is the most information-packed video I have seen in a long time on ANY subject.

[blabyever]

Make a video on how the AMA lobbying to prevent more medical students has caused a physician shortage in America!

[miroslavivanov]

sometimes I wonder why i chose medicine 🤦

[lesionnervioradial]

Hi. If there are in IMGs from Ecuador watching this video, please know that our country is not getting recognition by the ECFMG, and medical graduates will not be able to apply for ECFMG certification in 2024. Please share this information, so medical schools can do something!😱

[leprixdurevemedprepa]

"ECFMG continues to hold medical school accreditation as vitally important to ensuring the quality of medical education and, ultimately, patient care. ECFMG plans to launch the policy in 2024 in a way that both maintains the importance of medical school accreditation by a recognized agency and acknowledges that global events have disrupted key aspects of the accreditation and recognition processes. When the policy is initially implemented in 2024, it will not be a requirement for ECFMG Certification." Quoted from official website. So we should be safe for now

[StudentDrGigi]

Very protectionist stance from the GMC in the UK. As a medical student in England, I am just glad that I didn't start medical school in 2024. I hope this does not continue -- something needs to change.

[jeanetteraichel]

UK trained physicians can move to Canada to practice medicine. Since Canada is part of the Commoneealth, they're likely going to have an easier time getting licensed to practice or get a residency position

[squirrel]

Oh no I can't work 100 hours a week what ever will I do

[epinephrine]

So, I'm extremely confused after watching this video. I'm an US IMG. I'm done with step 1 and will take step 2 end of 2023. I think by 2024 my med school would no longer remain accredited. MY QUESTION IS- WILL I BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR RESIDENCY IN 2024-2025 IS MY SCHOOL LOOSES THE

[bman]

If you complete form 186 befor3 2024 even if you did not graduate yet those changes will not effect you

[LaylaShaheen]

Being a UK medical student is so incredibly frustrating. The NHS is an absolute mess right now; super understaffed to the point of compromising patient dignity and the standard for care has hit the floor. Junior doctors are massively underpaid and have financial stress on top of the toll it takes just knowing you aren't able to care for the people who need you. All of this and the GMC respond by gatekeeping our ability to go to somewhere we could learn valuable skills much quicker, get onto a residency program that uses up-to-date techniques and learn in the process!

[keshakesha]

Obviously, many countries will not be interested in this accreditation: they will want to keep their doctors home. This may trigger lack of IMG/FMG residency applicants that will result in physician shortage in the US. This, in turn, may push the US to adopt a model used in other countries - recognizing residency training in some selected countries. It's done, for example, in Canada where residency training done in the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and some other countries is accepted as equal to Canadian training.

[ricardoferral]

I’m an ECFMG certified FMG from Mexico. There’s something that’s not very clear in your video. My understanding is that you cannot be certified by the ECFMG UNLESS you have taken USMLE Step1, Step2CK and OET (English proficiency exam that replaced Step2CS). On the UK student example, you make it sound as if you can be certified by the ECFMG BEFORE taking the USMLE’s, which is not true, unless the UK is an exemption to this rule. What is true is that you have to START your registration to the ECFMG before taking an USMLE Step exams, but you can only be certified once you’ve taken all the exams mentioned above.

I wonder if what you meant was that you can REGISTER now to the ECFMG and then be “grandfathered” in?? Because FMGs won’t be certified until the complete their STEP exams and OET, giving them even less time to be “grandfathered” in by 2024.

[Raquel-jvhi]

My school is in the World Directory Medical School List. However, the sponsor notes is blank 😞. What does this mean? Can I apply for EFCMG Certification?
Note I will graduate in 2027

[degstoll]

This might never affect me since I don't want to live in the States, but to those do, I feel sorry for them.

[dmkn]

no doubt the hospital lobby has some role in this. Their plan is to reduce number of physicians and continue to expand the role of allied health providers.