December 4, 2019
2023 Medical School Accreditation Requirement: New Resources
Earlier this year, ECFMG launched a new website section dedicated to the upcoming 2023 Medical School Accreditation Requirement for ECFMG Certification. This section includes eligibility guidelines that provide more detail on how the requirement will impact individuals applying to ECFMG for Certification and the United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) leading up to 2023 and beyond. We encourage you to visit the new 2023 website section and to share the information with individuals and institutions that may be interested.
In addition, an overview of the 2023 Accreditation Requirement is now available in 11 languages! To access a convenient PDF of the overview in Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish, visit the Resources page of the 2023 section.
Updates will be posted to the 2023 section of the ECFMG website as they become available, so remember to check back periodically.
Guidance on Medical School Selection
Do you know someone interested in applying for medical school? With more than 3,000 medical schools in operation around the world, we encourage individuals considering medical school to thoroughly research potential schools before applying. ECFMG’s Guidance on Medical School Selection provides a list of characteristics to keep in mind as well as key questions to ask when evaluating schools.
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Journeys in Medicine, an ECFMG Blog
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The Nigeria Pediatric ICU (PICU) Project
By Odiraa Nwankwor, MD, MPH, CPE
"I am a pediatric intensivist, and I am from Nigeria. As an intensivist in the US, I offer multi-disciplinary care to children who are critically ill, in an ICU environment. Our team offers various forms of support for any organ-system failure ranging from tracheal intubation/mechanical ventilation to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). However, in Nigeria and most other low and middle income (LMIC) countries, children who are critically ill are not cared for in an ICU environment. Most of the hospitals in these resource-limited settings lack the capacity and resources to intubate and mechanically ventilate children who are in respiratory failure from varied causes. As you read this blog, if a child goes to any of the major tertiary pediatric institutions in these regions, in respiratory failure or has any major organ-systems dysfunction, the fate of that child is grim. There are millions of such children, even at this moment." Continue reading
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In the News |
Odessa Physician Receives Leadership Award
Odessa American News Online, November 26, 2019
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