169 – Ask Dr. Nii – Questions from International Medical Student Grads

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

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4.9 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! What’s good everyone! For this Ask Dr. Nii segment, Dr. Nina Lum jumps on to help answer questions from our international medical graduate students. We’re going to answer two questions: 1. In what order should I take my step tests, especially in light of Step 1 going to pass/fail?; 2. Can I realistically get into a US – based orthopedic surgery residency as an IMG? Resources: The IMG Roadmap Podcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to Docs Outside the Box podcast.
0:04.6	This is your official show, looking inside the minds of cutting edge and innovative doctors.
0:10.5	Think you'll find these stories in any medical textbook?
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0:14.2	You're getting real live insight from men and women pushing the envelope beyond medicine.
0:19.7	Ordinary doctors doing extraordinary things.
0:23.4	Let's start now with your host, Dr. Ney Darko.
0:32.9	Hey, Dr. Nina Loom, how are you?
0:35.5	Welcome to Doc outside the box.
0:37.5	Hey, Dr. Darko. Thanks for having me. I'm great. How are you?
0:41.9	I'm hanging in there. I'm doing good. And this is very interesting time because I've been getting
0:47.7	a lot of questions through Instagram and through social media about just a whole bunch of different
0:52.8	questions related to being an international
0:54.5	medical graduate. And I just don't know that stuff. So I wanted to bring you on the show,
0:59.9	since you are all things IMG, you are a top IMG coach, you've written a book about this. You've got a
1:05.1	podcast about this, which is fire. That's what I wanted to have you on the show.
1:10.0	I'm glad to be here. I'll share
1:11.6	whatever knowledge I have regarding the IMD journey with you. Tell us where you're located at,
1:16.4	what specialty you're in, where you're at, all that. Okay. So I am from Cameroon in West Africa.
1:22.9	I live in Kentucky. I came in as an F1 student back in the day, transitioned to B1, J1, H1B, all nine yards.
1:31.3	What is all that? What's the F1? What's all that?
1:32.9	So F1 is a student visa. So you come in as a student and then you have to eventually do residency,
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