Caribbean Medical Schools Compared
Caribbean medical schools
Compare Caribbean MD programs on the numbers that decide your career
Caribbean schools admit far more applicants than U.S. schools, so a Likely/Target/Reach label means little here. What matters is what happens after you're admitted: whether you can use U.S. federal loans, whether the states you want to practice in recognize the school, how many students pass Step 1 on the first try, and how many land a U.S. residency. Every outcome figure below is the school's own, and each school defines it differently. We quote each definition so you can compare like with like.
The baseline. In the 2025 NRMP Main Residency Match, 93.5% of U.S. MD seniors and 92.6% of U.S. DO seniors matched, compared with 67.8% of U.S.-citizen graduates of international medical schools. Source: NRMP.
Read the fine print. Schools report "residency attainment" or "placement," which usually counts positions outside the NRMP Match and divides only by graduates who applied that year. Students who left the program or never applied don't appear in the denominator.
