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Every fee the official organizations publish for both matches, added up. Anything we could not confirm is marked as such.

What the IRS pages say about the substantial presence test, and the questions to bring to a cross-border accountant.

The Canadian numbers from CaRMS, what we could confirm on the US side, and why the two columns don’t line up.

Most people planning to match in the US spend months on exams and applications and then discover, late, that being allowed to train there is a separate question from being matched. This is an immigration topic, and immigration rules change. We aren’t lawyers and this isn’t legal advice. We are summarizing a toolkit written for

There is a question that comes up in every group of Canadians studying abroad: do I sit the USMLE, the MCCQE, or both? We don’t think there is a single right answer, and we would be suspicious of anyone who offers one with confidence. We can lay out what each exam is, who runs it,

A Canadian who graduates from an Irish medical school and wants to train in the United States is, in American terms, an international medical graduate. That label comes with a gatekeeper: ECFMG, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, now operating under the name Intealth. ECFMG certification is what lets an IMG enter US residency

The 2026 Main Residency Match placed 6,733 non-US international medical graduates, a record number, at a match rate of 56.4%. [1][2] The same match placed US MD seniors at 93.5%. [2] Both numbers are true, and neither predicts your result. We want to explain what the Match is, what the figures include, and what a

If you have applied to Canadian programs, the American process will feel familiar and also slightly off. The system is called ERAS, the Electronic Residency Application Service, and most of the steps are in a different order from what CaRMS taught you. The 2027 season is already underway, and some deadlines have passed. We are

Many Canadians in medical school abroad apply to both Canada and the United States. We know because that is what the people around us are doing, and it is what we expected to do ourselves. It is allowed, and the two matching services have an agreement about it. What catches students out is how the

Most Canadians who end up at an Irish medical school hear about Atlantic Bridge early. It is the name that comes up in every forum thread and every conversation with a student who is a year ahead. We want to explain what it is and what it costs, because we think people sometimes treat it