"USMLE" searched more OUTSIDE America than Within

And the point of this useless post is to simply giggle at the paradox and the irony of it - as the only guy who maintains and writes on this site, I occasionally lose my bearings ;-).

Google Trends is an interesting tool - it analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the term and also displays the top cities, regions, and languages in which people searched for the first term entered.

It was most amusing to note that "USMLE" keyword was searched more OUTSIDE United States for the past four years (2004 to 2007) ... Of Course if it were the rest of the world pitched against United States - that would kind be obvious, but we are talking about searches within a single country exceeding those within USA, in fact USA ranks fourth after Pakistan, India and Egypt. Here's a screen-shot for the Google Trends results for "USMLE" Returned on 12th Dec. 2007:

Or you can try it out yourself hereon Google Trends.

An indicator of the competition that IMGs face ? And Here's how the 2001-2007 NRMP Match statistics data looks for Non-US IMGs participating in the NRMP Match, when graphed on Excel - Click Here for Graph pic: Source: NRMP Data and Reports.


Also Read:

- Which countries do most IMGs come from ?
- Barriers that IMGs face for Residency

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