2023-09-01 22:28:35
Not being a citizen or resident of the United States has not been an impediment for Claudia Estefanía Guillén López from standing out and being able to pursue a medical career in the neighboring country where she has lived since 2021.
She studied that degree at the Autonomous University of Baja California, at the Mexicali School of Medicine, where she graduated in 2017.
Once he finished his degree, he focused on passing the necessary exams to revalidate his degree in the US. In his opinion, anyone who sets his mind to it can do it.
It took him a year to be able to pay and study for each of the exams called “STEP 1” and “STEP 2”, with which he was able to revalidate the basic part of the degree, as well as the clinical part. These are endorsed by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG).
In order to practice there, he said it was necessary to do rotations in a medical institution.
“What I did was ask for permission at a clinic in the Center, around where the Home Town Buffet was, I asked the doctor there for permission if I might do a rotation because I had to prove that I worked with the United States system, it crosses the Covid-19 and I thought that I was not going to be able to do it anymore, but they gave me permission that I was a person who was going to work with all the pandemic, so I was one of the people who might come and go during the Covid-19, that’s how I started for regarding a year and a half,” he recalled.
Later, he worked in the state of Georgia, where he was applying skin cancer tests for vulnerable populations. She is currently doing a specialty in internal medicine.
“My intention is to reapply to a subspecialty and be an endocrinologist, what I’m passionate regarding is studying diabetes, thyroid, hormones and right now everything transgender, I would also see it,” she added.
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She recently applied for a fellowship from an endocrinology society, which she won. Only 30 people were chosen, being her the only one from Mexico. This allowed him to appear in an important publication of a magazine of that specialty. On one of her pages, she can be seen pointing to the place where she is from, the land of Cachanilla, together with young people from other parts of the world.
Currently, he is a resident at McNeal Hospital, which is owned by Loyola University, since June 2021.
For her, it has not been difficult to adapt, quite the opposite, as a consequence of the fact that there is a large Mexican and Latino population in general in that city.
“We have a large number of patients who speak Spanish and if you put a doctor who speaks English, they cannot be given care and I feel better knowing that I am in demand, that we are a necessity, the medical staff who speak Spanish. Those who do not speak Spanish cannot understand them, the doctor who only speaks English is obviously lazy to deal with the language barrier. I feel very nice to be able to help all those people who are embarrassed to go to the doctor, to the emergency room. Sometimes I felt bad regarding leaving Mexico and I feel that in some way, I am giving something back to Mexico by treating the people who are here, ”he said.
The doctor assured that she has not suffered a culture shock either.
“Sometimes I feel that I continue to consult in Mexico, but with more resources, half of my friends are all Latino, the other half are also foreigners, we are like brothers,” he said.
IT IS NOT TALKED THAT EVERYONE CAN
For the runaway, it is relatively easy to be able to practice medicine in the United States, you just have to study, take the exams, pay for them, and do the interviews. The essential thing is to save money, speak English, but above all, have the moral support of her loved ones.
Estefanía considered that at the Mexicali School of Medicine there is hardly any talk regarding the possibility of pursuing a degree in the United States, unlike the UABC in Tijuana, where a doctor even comes to explain the process and the courses and accreditations that must be to comply to achieve it.
“I don’t know if it’s the Mexicali faculty that lacks dissemination, in Xochicalco for example, shooting for travel, they hold talks to promote people here, I don’t know what the UABC is missing,” he concluded.
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