FMGE vs USMLE

Most of the medical students are confused about FMGE and USMLE . So here we try to clear their doubts or confusion for the same. FMGE (Foreign Medical Graduates Examination) is also known as Medical Council of India Screening Test. It is a licensure exam conducted by National Board of Examination (NBE) in India. This is a mandatory test for a medical student who has done his medicine from a college outside India to practice medicine in the country. Unlike FMGE USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination) is a three-step exam for all IMGs (International Medical Graduates) who wants to pursue their medical career in the United States.

What is FMGE?

FMG is a condensing for a Foreign Medical Graduate, an understudy having an essential medicinal capability granted by any restorative foundation outside India. Though a FMGE – Screening test is shortened for outside medicinal graduate examination-screening test, which a FMG needs to go for acquiring a temporary or changeless enrolment with Medical Council of India or any State Medical Council.

Benefits of FMGE:

The 5 – 6 years that understudies avoid their family and nation to seek after the fantasy of turning into a medicinal graduate is fragmented until the point when they qualify the FMGE-Screening test. The FMGE empowers them to rehearse in India, following a time of temporary position.

What is USMLE?

The United State Medical Licensing Examination comprises of three exams; STEP1, STEP 2CK, STEP 2 CS and Step 3. A candidate needs to qualify all these exams for acquiring licensure in United States. For International Medical graduates (IMGs), the Education Commission for outside Medical Graduates (ECFMG) assesses the restorative capability of IMGs, their therapeutic school and furthermore directs USMLE STEP 2CS.

Benefits of USMLE:

In the wake of finishing USMLE you can;

• 1.       Apply for residency and partnership in USA
• 2.       Attain life time legitimacy of ECFMG declaration The Education Commission for outside Medical Graduates")
• 3.       Obtain acknowledgment to work in New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Dubai as well as Qatar
• 4.       Avail better scholastics and research offices
• 5.       Fasten green card handling

ARE YOU A PRISONER TO YOUR EXAM FEAR

In order to excel in the USMLE exam, students must Think Like a Doctor and apply clinical thinking to each exam question. Becker faculty Dr. Steven R. Daugherty understands the underlying logic of the USMLE exam and is devoted to ensuring students’ success on test day. Through his personal USMLE exam prep resource, USMLEThought.com, Dr. Daugherty collaborated with Dr. Phillip Tisdall, M.D. to provide a ten-step process guiding students through the clinical thinking process.

Collect the basics. Age, gender, time frame and other demographic information will help you to picture the patient and the setting in your mind’s eye.

What’s the chief complaint? Is there a standard or clear clinical problem with a known approach?

Engage the clinical “train of thought.” Imagine you and a senior physician are in the room with the patient. Read through the rest of the question stem as if the physician were talking to you about the patient.

Consider the full set of information which is presented. Dr. Daugherty suggests moving away from looking for a simple association or “hook” in the question to considering the full set of information that is presented.

Come to a conclusion about the disease in question. Before reading the question line, come to your own conclusion about the disease in question.

Now read the question line. At this point, the question line should seem like the logical conclusion of your clinical thought process. Given all that has been presented, what does the senior physician want you to know?

Decide on the answer.

Look at the answer choices. Only look at the answer choices after you’ve already decided on the answer.

If you cannot think of a good answer, exclude the ones that you know are incorrect and pick from what is left. Eliminating false answers first will allow you to spend more time focusing on the answers that are most reasonable.

Move on to the next clinical case.

Practicing these steps and mastering the clinical thinking process will eventually help you to anticipate what information the question gives you to solve the problem. As Dr. Daugherty states: “Learning to think like a clinician is the key to understanding what each question expects from you and how to find the ‘train of thought’ that leads you to the solution waiting at the end.”