₦airaland Forum

InvertedHammer:
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Comprehension may not be your forte.

1-2 years to prepare for your exams and understand the culture. If you are highly intelligent, you may pass Step I and 2.
If you are lucky to get placement/matched in residency immediately(rarely happens), then the minimum duration for residency is 3 years.
As a resident, you are merely making minimum wage even on long and excruciating long hours. You are not independent.

There is no way you will spend less than 6 years coming from Nigeria to practice in USA. Don't forget that you are a student
doctor as a resident and may still be kicked out.

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A resident makes minimum wage?

Shows you know nothing dude!

...and a resident is not practicing in your books?
A Resident a student doctor ?( do you know how ridiculous that sounds)

So you write step 1 in Ghana, 2 in the US-- are you going to sit down there?

Don't people write the exams and come back home?
You think they pack their bags to go write step 1 and 2 and sit down there?

What are you saying dude?!

You know there are thousands of Nigerian Doctors in the US right?
... and I mean Nigerians working as Doctors!

lefulefu:
ok i don hear you.everybody is an Einstein and a billioniare on nairaland..i be forget

You rather I were a dullard?

Wtf, dude!

lefulefu:
the exam is not an exam u just drink beer and smoke weed to go an write.u have to prepare very well for it and solve past questions and know everything in an out for you to pass it.with your noisy and angry character wey u dey exhibit here how u think say u wan take write the exam.anyway when u don comot for naija u will mellow and cool down.

Have you heard before that exams are not a true test of knowledge?

Every exam has a format... A password.

If you like Sabi all the book, if you don't use the right things to prepare, you will fail.

I have never failed an exam before in my life-- local or foreign!

Even rocket science get format

I know people who are practising in the US, if you believe or not, na your pocket e dey-- no be everybody be taxi driver!

Calm Dan Oga!

lefulefu:
na naija u go dey.u dey act like a typical noisy lagos area boy

Calm Dan Oga!

Being in Nigeria or abroad is not a feat.

If being abroad is a feat for you, sorry o!

lefulefu:
na because u never travel and see things for urself u dey yarn like this.wait until u travel then u go understand wetin i dey yarn

Ogaade, you think say na Naija I dey?

No dey yarn oshi!

lefulefu:
Yes they are retrained.You think US medical council go just take u like that..and mind u USMLE exam no be beans o.They ask you technical questions.The only way you can pass it very well is take a tutorial programme prior before you write the exam.You can aslo purchase the USMLE aid book and practice it before writing the exam.If you be the type of doctor in nigeria doing rubbish and u say u wan go yankee then i suggest the person just remains in naija cos after all you still comfortable as a doctor in nigeria.if you have to venture out u really have to know your onions.

Oga keep quiet, no dey talk rubbish wey you no Sabi?!

I didn't mean to be rude to you but you have decided to be obnoxious!

USMLE hard, e hard, but I get guys wey dey 98 percentile for the exam.

Which re-training you dey talk abeg?!
Or is it the tutorial before exams? What is in the bloody tutorial?
A refresher before the clinical exams?

That asides other things are involved before you get matched... No dey yarn dust bros!

You Sabi how many Nigerians Doctors dey US?

Abeg.

Beverlyjean:
Since Ronaldo joined juve ...dybala has become a better player... Same player that Messi is destroying in Argentina

So it is Ronaldo that made him better bah?

Otondo!

lebete3000:
So what should the Pathologist do?

Funny enough, there was nothing like Med Lab Scientist before oh, those were the days quality results were being churned out, but to cut costs nowadays, na so dem bring these guys, now na different result you go dey everywhere.

Guys wey no even sabi do blood film sef, guys wey go dey diagnose Typhoid with that irresponsible test called Widal. Na them pollute the average gullible Nigerian mind sey Widal na Typhoid test, not knowing many illnesses can also give an elevated Widal result.

The use of widal is helpful, when used serially with help from the clinical features majorly.

But when hatred for the Nigerian doctor is already established as a foundation, all you tell them enters one ear and goes through the other.

I've always adviced Naija docs that the only way they can be appreciated is to leave the country, people never know the value of what they have until they lose it.

Any naija doc who's spent 5years post graduation and is still in Naija has his/herself to blame for any rubbish being spewed at them by Nigerians.

Nigerians are simply an ungrateful set of people, shikena!

What are you saying bros?

The same typhoid people have been treating every 3 months for the past 10 years?!

Resistant typhoid!


I asked 2 people, from Mali and Senegal once, if they knew what typhoid is-- they had no freaking idea.

But in Nigeria, everybody has typhoid until Widal test proves otherwise--

I have seen typhoid a few times and it is scary as hell!

trilobite:
Happened to a very good friend of mine:

One girl slept didn't wake up and was rushed to the hospital. The doctors ran tests, and did all they could (in their illiterate mind) before confirming her dead.

The mum however refused the hospital moving her daughter to the mortuary, insisting she was alive. Now when someone dies a final injection is given to the corpse before the body is moved. The mum fought tooth and nail against it's administration.

The family ordered one of their doctor sons in the USA to come back and run a final check on his sister. He took an immediate flight and arrived a few days later. Now note throughout all this the girl's body was covered on the hospital bed like a dead corpse.

Dude came in, didn't even need any fancy equipment, just checked her body and confirmed.....SHE WAS ALIVE!!!! He ordered specific tests, gave her some injections after which she regained conciousness.

The incident still scares me to this day. If not the family had him, the hospital would have killed their daughter. How many people who are in a worst financial situation have suffered a worst fate?

God help us.

So the girl was kept on a hospital bed for those days?

I thought Rigor Mortis sets in after a few hours, then the body starts decomposing ( or was she put in the morgue)

I don't want to say it's a lie, but it sure sounds like a poorly scripted Kannywood story!

Johnny1013:
can't really remember now but when I got to the pharmacist ,He just looked at it and said ' this one too much oooo

First, it was the Doctor gave you Ibuprofen for a headache (As if he committed murder doing so).

Now it is the pharmacist said the dose was too much?

What was the dose?
You don't know.

I am aware ibuprofen for an adult is usually 400mg, a pop, but can be as high as 800mg depending on circumstances.

So how are we sure you even know what you are saying, egbon?

Johnny1013:
Better person,his dosage go kill me lol....Na him dosage wey he give me na him be the Matter

What 'dosage' did he give you?

femi4:
my people perish for lack of knowledge. Comparing children ibuprofen to that of adult

Drugs are administered based on weight and patient's condition


Ibuprofen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that's typically used in children to treat fever or pain. ... “If you give a larger dose than your child's weight can handle, this can lead to kidney problems and also stomach issues


Don't worry, I ll be here to contribute to your kidney issh

What are you saying??

Who ever said medicines are not calculated based on weight?

It is the same Medicine whatever weight.

Someone says Ibuprofen is a special medicine and I refuted it.

What exactly are you driving at?

InvertedHammer:
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He is right.

Pass USLME exams. Then if lucky, get Residency placement of minimum 3 years. Then one can do fellowship (for specialists).

To practice in US as a doctor trained in Nigeria will take about 6 years for very intelligent and "lucky" ones.
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Every doctor there goes through Residency-- you understand Residency is work right?

You are working!

If you pass your USMLE and your get matched, why will you spend 6 years again?

femi4:
Ibuprofen is a very strong pain killer. Not to be administered unless in a severe cases

Same ibuprofen I will still drink this morning-- very strong pain killer?

Even children use it you know...

Oga talk another rubbish!

lefulefu:
As a nigerian doctor coming to the US to practice u wont be allowed to just practice like that.You will write a sort of exam they call the US medical licencing exam(USLME).The ones who are succesful in the exams are then retrained.Nigerian doctors overall they try cos if u see am we lack facilities in naija.you can imagine in some govt hospitals they have to perform surgery with chinese rechargable touchlights and candles cos no light and no diesel to power the generators. but then there some naija doctors wey dey fuk up and give a bad image about doctors in naija.

They are retrained after their passing exams again?

Stop saying what you don't know man!

mployer:
I have friends that are professionals in various fields in the UK.

It took years before they started making the little money they are making. And I tell you if they save 20k for two consecutive years they will back to Nigeria

Guess your friends are broke!

mployer:
He couldn't have saved money for 3 yrs.

He came from Nigeria, he won't start practicing immediately. He will need some form of accreditation and licensing before practicing which will take close to a year.

He won't start saving the moment he starts practicing. He need to sort out accommodation, maybe get a car and pay up some outstanding debts.

Let's say he saved €500 per month in the third year, that will amount to paltry €6k.

The house is valued at 250k. Do the maths.


And what makes you think a Doctor in England cannot be a Yahoo boy? I mean, do they make more money that Yahoo boys?

If you don't know why don't you ask-- people are getting jobs right from Nigeria...

Who says you don't practise immediately and what licensing again?

I know people that saved 20k in one year, so what's the biggie.

What's the biggie in getting a house?

I was at the Barber's and a guy was talking about how he got his 1st house at 19... So why can't a Doctor get a bloody house.

Abegi!

0monnak0da:
Guy I am not going for elecction and so I am not looking for support.

Sometimes I wonder what I am doing here

Ok bye, since you are bigger than everybody here...

0monnak0da:
Guy this is the internet. True it is a faceless forum but It is very unlikely that in real life you would have the opportunity to tell me this rubbish.

If you do not comprehend or understand ask questions and do that POLITELY

Did you comprehend what you read before you were overwhelmed by the impulse to quote me? Did I talk about saving AT ALL

You clearly lack understanding and exposure. Must you talk
Please go and play with your coevals and naff off

Hahaha.

You realize I was not insulting you but supporting your comment?

Sorry sir o!

Guess you don't understand Street lingo-- pepper body.

0monnak0da:
Simple logic if you buy a house on Mortgage, put a tenant in it and he pays rent which pays the mortgage you are investing

Anything else you are speculating

Bros, sense will not kill you-- that is how the house will be paying mortgage by itself.

How can someone see good credit and not take it?

Only poor people believe savings makes them better off.

AnanseK:
Good for him, but remember this is mortgage from a building society.

He will be paying exorbitant some of money with interest for this house until his retirement. If he defaults in payment the building society takes back the house. When he reaches old age he sells the house and uses the money to move into a private old people’s home.

Because he will be counted as having some money he is not qualified for government subsidy and the old people’s home may actually take all the money he has.

Stop this lowly thinking-- I know a doctor, a Nigerian Doctor that has 40 houses in the UK.

What is bad in getting a Mortgage?

Our fathers that saved every dime, were they better off?

A smart man doesn't use his money for an investment, if he gets a good loan he takes it!

While Nigerians are priding their selves for paying 'in full,' Asians are buying up whole streets.

E Pele sir, Mr pay-in-cash.

MoIbrahim:
You think everyone who gets on social media is a fellow church rat? Or you think it takes someone who is richer than Mike Tyson to say Mike Tyson is broke. Mind you, I was and still I am a dan of Tyson's. I dont know your age, but I witnessed and followed Tyson live in the 80s into the 90s, including his hair style, which I also wore.

So, you better skip me and get on with your self-deprecating mentality, if it makes you feel comfortable, humble or cool-headed.

If it makes you feel strong and knowledgeable, you may keep arguing with yourself that he never earned up to $500m.

It is estimated he earned 300million from boxing (in total).
Does that mean that's his net worth?

Is all you have ever earned your net worth-- you no dey chop?


Then, your tirade doesn't make sense-- self deprecating bawo... What are we talking, what are you talking!

You say Tyson is broke, and I say he is still richer than you in his brokeness

MoIbrahim:
Sure! You think $3m dollars for a man once worth over $500 million is not broke? A man who once owned up to 80 classic sport cars all at once?

oga park well abeg!

stop saying rubbish.

you get even 1 million dollars?

...by the way when was he ever worth 500 million?

MoIbrahim:
I do not have a negative aseet/account balance. Do you?

He is worth millions as we speak!

Not in naira o!

MoIbrahim:
Mike Tyson was one heavy weight in his own class, almost all his wins were knock outs, won in the first round and within seconds. Until one day when he sadly lost to James Buster Douglas. Like Mohammed Ali, he later regained his title.

He is the youngest ever heavy weight champion, at 20 years of age.

Sadly, he is now broke after receiving a total of $300 million from fights.

Tyson broke?



Em still get money pass you o!

RTSC:
Most of the smartest people in the world are not tall.

I agree with the rest.

He has not written exams with Asians before-- you will cry!

joe4christ:
Never heard of this woman Mehn!

Indomie o!
Indomie generation!

Obiaksnews:
But same Griezmann was banging in goals when he was at Atl Madrid, what now happened ? Is it not the same opponents he is facing in Barcelona ?

Was Griezman playing as a LWF in Atl. Madrid?

Angelfrost:
Not a fan of either... But, we both know Messi would easily have the same number, if not more, if he spent most time on the field hanging around the penalty area...

It's all about choice, individuality, and approach to games... One chooses to be a thorough playmaker, and score when he chooses or opportunity comes... The other basically wants all goals to come through him, even to the obsessive point of getting upset if substituted without a goal. Assisting or tracking back to defend or intercept doesn't interest him.

This is what makes both players unique... And what makes your comparisons, ermmm, quite silly.

...and one gets upset if his team-mate scored instead of passing the ball to him!

Crazy!

NORSYK:
That's where individual brilliancy comes to play, which is why CR7 is the best player in the world, he can singlehandedly win you tournaments.

Maradona and Simeone once said, if they had CR7 in Argentinas team he would have won Trophies for Argentina

What tournaments has he singlehandedly won?

NORSYK:
Are you telling me that they had more outstanding players than Argentina?

Outstanding players?

What does that have to do with this discourse?

What did outstanding players do to Brazil in 2006, 2010?

Spain before 2010?

France, Holland?

Belgium?

If it was just about players, then you don't need a coach?

Just put them on the pitch and let them 'outstanding players' themselves to the Cup!

Would you say Liverpool has the most outstanding players in the world?

Or Bayern's players are two times better Tottenham's?

Come on, man!

NORSYK:
are Chilean team better than Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay? Even Columbia

1. A team sport is not necessarily about the individual players in the team. It's about cohesion, how the pieces of the jigsaw fit.

2. Chile was ranked the 4th beat team (in the world) in 2016 and now they are still in the first 20.

3. If you have ever taken time out to watch them play, you won't say whatever you are saying-- but I guess you only check scores online.

4. If they were an average team-- at least the set of Bravo and Sanchez, they wouldn't win Copa America, back-to-back.
Was that a fluke?!