how to choose the right medical school

it is always hard to search for the right medical school. Different people from the different culture will have their own considerations. Anyhow, i have listed down the few golden rules as below.

1. Recognition - it is important to ask yourself where would you like to practise medicine one day. Many universities available  will not be recognized worldwide. For instance in Malaysia and Singapore, you will have find the list of recognised universities in order to practise in the particular countries.Many times students got caught studying in an affordable university such as Sofia University but do not have a chance to even practise at home ie: South Korea
2. Cost of studies - it is always a crucial consideration when comes to choose a medical programme. Medical programme could be very very expensive but there are some universities which provide really cheap education. It depends on your preference. For instance, Hong Kong University which is a famous university in the world providing world class medical education for only HK dollar 500,000.00. It might be one of the cheapest and giving the best it could have.
3. Cost of living- cost of living is something ppl tend to overlooked. In many cases, cheap education might comes with high living expenses. For instance just now was Hong Kong university which is one of the top 10 medical university in the world, the living expenses rocketed to one of the highest in the world! up to a mean of  $500.00 for a month rental of a single room?
4. Programme structure- it is important to know the programme structure especially if you already have a degree, you could just do the graduate pathway of medical school for only 4 years instead of the ordinary form of 5-7 years.
5. Syllabus - most ppl think that medical school have the exact syllabus- the answer is No.. some university they have different syllabus structure. the most important 2 structures is Problem Based Learning (PBL) or Systemic Based LEarning. it will be explained in the next post.
6. Last but not least, student should always be aware of the training hospital that will be attached to your university. Some university such as Duke University has largely based residency programme which exposed the students into pre-specialisation where they have a higher chance of getting a residency after graduating.

Good luck

, bryan ng yih miin