Both Illinois and California require foreign medical school graduates to get verification of their medical education and clinical clerkship rotations directly from the medical school. Neither Illinois nor California will accept these verification from the FCVS.
Illinois requires a minimum of 4 weeks in each of the following rotations: surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology and psychiatry.
California requires instruction in the clinical courses to total a minimum of 72 weeks in length. Instruction in the core clinical courses of surgery, medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and psychiatry shall total a minimum of 40 weeks in length with a minimum of 8 weeks instruction in surgery, 8 weeks in medicine, 6 weeks in pediatrics, 6 weeks in obstetrics and gynecology, a minimum of 4 weeks in family medicine and 4 weeks in psychiatry.
Most often times medical schools in India, Pakistan and a few other countries will only verify 2 weeks of psychiatry from the clinical clerkships. You will have to ask your medical school to break out the additional 2 weeks of psychiatry from your first year of internship.
