Unfortunately, ALL Elective lists I found were outdated, and

MANY Universities has stopped accepting INT. students, so I had

to make this one

ACCEPTING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS = Non-LCME

(Non-American/Canadian Medical Schools)

VSAS (GHLO) Universities: If your School is in the “Home Schools”, then you can apply
to one of the “Host Institutions” through contacting your School administration.

These are the US Universities accepting through VSAS (GHLO):

- Boston University School of Medicine

- Larkin Community Hospital
- Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
- West Virginia University
- Wayne state University
- University of Missouri Kansas City
- University of Oklahoma
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Yale School of Medicine

Uni. of Illinois - Chicago (No Application fee, only $1500 tuition fee)

Uni. of Illinois - Peoria (via Mail)

Louisiana State University (Via Mail)

University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville ($800/Week)

Uni. of Massachusetts Medical School

Kansas

Uni. of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (UTHSCSA)

Only accepts international students in: Emergency, Otolaryngology, Surgery, Urology

Cook County Health and Hospital System:

Only accepts international students in: Trauma, Anesthesiology, Burn

Wake Forest School of Medicine (Only select five international students every year :)

Texas Heart Institute: Doesn’t offer electives in Internal Medicine or Pediatrics (you can
e-mail Dena Houchin at: dhouchin@texasheart.org ).

Uni. of Toledo: Only accepts students from (China, Ethiopia, India, Jordan, Lebanon,
Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia)

Universities with Special Requirements:

Case Western Reserve University:
Doesn’t accept international students for internal medicine, Only PEDS, via MAIL

University of North Carolina: (via GHLO)

TOEFL score required: minimum score of 107, fees $2500

National Institute of Health (NIH): (one of the top)

TOEFL score required: minimum score of 108 (28+ in speaking and listening)

Jefferson + Philadelphia University = Sidney Kimmel Medical College:

Application Here
Only Internal Medicine and Only in Block 18, $750 fees, via MAIL

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center:

Oncology only, letter of why you want oncology, NO FEES, BEST IN ONCOLOGY in USA

UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX:

F1 Visa

UT Health Science Center at Houston:

F1 Visa + Send via MAIL

Uni. of New Mexico: Catalog and Requirements

Need a Faculty SPONSOR, No Cardiology/Peds Cardio, $1750 fees, via MAIL

Cleveland Clinic: (BEST place to go) No tuition fees, only $400 application fees/month
TOEFL score required: High in Reading and Listening and Good in Writing and Speaking
(Can be waived by Secondary English Education = IGCSE)

Mayo Clinic: (BEST place to go) No tuition fees, only $350 application fees, #1 in USA
TOEFL score required: minimum score of 104 (Can be waived if your Medical School
teaches Medicine in English = get Letter of English Education)

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: Sponsor needed

Arizona College of Medicine: Sponsor needed

Johns Hopkins = Research Elective is the ONLY allowed

Expensive Univer$itie$
University of Washington: ($5000) + Sponsor

Colorado University: ($4000+App.215) + SPONSOR + Mail

Emory University: ($3500+App. 500)

Yale School of Medicine: ($3600, NO APP FEES, so you can try your luck)

University of Florida College of Medicine: ($3200)

Weill Cornell ($2000+App.300)

Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine = Florida Inter. Med. Sch.

($2500+App.200)

Stanford ($3000+App.300)

Alabama ($5000+App.300), “including housing, but not meals”

Harvard University

Icahn School (ALL Mount Sinai Hospitals) = apply from Jan 1st
($1000 application fees, but with 5 alternatives for your choice)

Sponsor = a doctor that you will have to find on the university website, then contact
via email, requesting him/her to sponsor you elective rotation at the university hospital.

Sponsor DOESN’T mean lending you money! Simply means allowing you to participate
under his/her supervision

Last updated: August 2018

Search hard and you will certainly find your dream. GOOD LUCK!

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