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This is over exaggerated. Barring obvious visa issues present right now, you could match with between 8k- 10k[10-13million], depending on your YOG, specialty of interest and research/ pubs. These over exaggerated values probably kill people’s dreams more than they motivate.

A Nigerian IMG Breakdown on Cost of USMLE. •Pre step 1 registration/form $160 (Paid my school to facilitate above step but varies from school-school). •STEP 1 EXAM FEE$1020(includes surcharge because written outside the US) •STEP 2 EXAM FEE$1020 (includes surcharge because written outside the US) •STEP 3 EXAM FEE$925.00 (a 2-day exam, written only in the US, so no surcharge) •ECFMG Certification $925 Notary for ECFMG Certification $79.88 (online stuff) •OET exam $587 •The match process: -registration/eras token $165 -Usmle transcript $80 -nmrp $70 -program application fee $11/program for the first 30 programs ie $330. >30 program applications, $30 per program •For this cycle, I applied to both IM (115 programs) and FM (61 programs), a total of 176 programs for $4,220 •Study materials Used uworld (6 months subscription for each step) Uworld step 1 $479 Uworld step 2 $479 Uworld step 3 $479 Ccscases for step 3 clinical case simulation $110 •Nbme question bank $160 ( got some blocks). •First aid book for step 1 £37.99. •Above totalling $11, 007.13 •Other costs not included transportation and accommodation and feeding, US clinical experience, research article and publications etc . (Roughly spent $5000-6000 for these). So overall total 🟰 $16/17,000. Approx 23-24M Naira. N/B: Since it’s done in steps, this isn’t lump sum. Periodic registration makes it easy to save per time for the steps and all the steps were written within 1 year and matched into Internal Medicine.

I’ve done the maths. It’ll take about N24M for a Nigerian doctor to write USMLE and match to American residency program. If they don’t have rich family, how’re they gonna achieve this? The cost of a good life is actually expensive.

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Somewhere in a UK hospital. The doctors ending their call are handing over to the next set of doctors. It's an all-Nigerian affair. This handover could have been in Lagos. Photo ©️Dr Okiroro