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Originally Posted by Unregistered
If I was in SG rn id just be getting into residency after bootlicking and fervently praying and finish 5 years later to make 300k sgd as surgical AC. I’m literally going to finish in 6 years time to make minimally 500k USD or higher and then can return to sg in the future once I want to settle down. I’ve also got world class education at a globally recognised T10 and can move to beautiful countries like switzerland or thr UAE with 0 issue. I don’t get what the allure of local uni is. My undergrad was paid for by full ride scholarship and my cost of med school is only about 200k more than SG. Instead of struggling for resale HDB and BTO i can just come back to SG when i have money to buy a spacious condo |
Honestly, if you could get into a US med school as a foreigner, you probably could get into local residency without much difficulty. I know good people who applied to many US med schools and didn't even get a single invite. So either way doing residency in the US (either as an IMG or as foreigner in US MD school) is no less arduous than what we have to do locally. In the end, pay is generally higher in the US, but pay and welfare is better during residency in SG.