This text provides Foreign Medical Graduates with a guide for becoming licensed to practice medicine in the US. It describes and explains the process for obtaining a visa, review for the USMLE, effective studying, stress management, cultural issues, and finding a residency. The book includes a chapter on the USMLE on how to apply, addresses, and web-sites and focuses on the US directed curriculum and differences to be expected by an IMG.

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Tomorrow's best physicians will be those who continually learn, adjust, and innovate as new information and best practices evolve, reflecting adaptive expertise in response to practice challenges. As the first volume in the American Medical Association's MedEd Innovation Series, The Master Adaptive Learner is an instructor-focused guide covering models for how to train and teach future clinicians who need to develop these adaptive skills and utilize them throughout their careers. - Explains and clarifies the concept of a Master Adaptive Learner: a metacognitive approach to learning based on self-regulation that fosters the success and use of adaptive expertise in practice. - Contains both theoretical and practical material for instructors and administrators, including guidance on how to implement a Master Adaptive Learner approach in today's institutions. - Gives instructors the tools needed to empower students to become efficient and successful adaptive learners. - Helps medical faculty and instructors address gaps in physician training and prepare new doctors to practice effectively in 21st century healthcare systems. - One of the American Medical Association Change MedEd initiatives and innovations, written and edited by members of the ACE (Accelerating Change in Medical Education) Consortium – a unique, innovative collaborative that allows for the sharing and dissemination of groundbreaking ideas and projects.

"Targeted review from USMLE expert Conrad Fischer, MD, Master the Boards USMLE Step 2 CK delivers what you need to excel on the exam and match into the residency program you want. The Fischer Method includes disease topics presented in exam-style format: What is the most likely diagnosis? What is the best initial test? What is the most accurate diagnostic test? What is the treatment? Includes: a logical approach that makes patient care easy to remember; hundreds of color diagnostic images, algorithms, and tables; and a new biostatistics chapter and dozens of new infectious disease topics."--