Are there any medical schools that do not require the MCAT or the standard premedical courses?
Every U.S. medical school requires you to take the MCAT and to complete your undergraduate prerequisite courses. For a nontraditional student who already has a bachelor’s degree, it will likely take 1 or 2 years to complete the prerequisites, and another year to go through the application process. The exceptions are some post-baccalaureate programs with direct linkages to medical schools, that will allow you to complete all prerequisites and the application process in only one year. In addition, some foreign medical schools may have more lenient entrance requirement. But 67% to 75% of all international medical graduates (IMG’s) fail to get licensed to practice medicine in the U.S. The failure rate is higher for IMG’s who were born in the U.S. and attend medical school overseas.
