{"id":35991,"date":"2025-08-27T14:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=35991"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:22:39","slug":"img-applicant-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/waterbury-internal-medicine-residency-program\/img-applicant-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"IMG Applicant Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"generic-paragraph\">\n<div class=\"generic-paragraph__text\">\n<ul>\n<li>We consider applicants from medical schools located outside the US and Canada who have graduated from medical school in the last 5 years.<\/li>\n<li>Passed USMLE Step 1 &amp; 2.<\/li>\n<li>USMLE Step 3 is not required to apply.<\/li>\n<li>Fluent in spoken and written English.<\/li>\n<li>You must be eligible for an ECFMG Certificate in order to apply. A copy of your certificate<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>must be received<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>before you start.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"generic-paragraph\">\n<h3 class=\"generic-paragraph__heading\">Visas<\/h3>\n<div class=\"generic-paragraph__text\">\n<ul>\n<li>All applicants who match with us are responsible for all visa fees.<\/li>\n<li>All matched applicants must obtain a valid visa prior to intern orientation (around June 12 yearly).<\/li>\n<li>We sponsor J-1 visas. We refer matched interns to the ECFMG website regarding all the necessary paperwork.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We consider applicants from medical schools located outside the US and Canada who have graduated from medical school in the last 5 years. Passed USMLE Step 1 &amp; 2. USMLE Step 3 is not required to apply. Fluent in spoken and written English. You must be eligible for an ECFMG Certificate in order to apply. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5287,"featured_media":0,"parent":35765,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 11:04:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36310,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35991\/revisions\/36310"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}