Since its founding in 1998, Medical University of the Americas has awarded a Doctor of Medicine degree to nearly 1400 graduates. As measured by the residency appointments and professional accomplishments of our graduates, the most important measure of any school, MUA has been extremely successful. That success begins with exceptional performance on the critical USMLE Step 1 exam, between 2015 and 2019, the first time pass rate averaged 95% - a consistently strong performance.
2021 Residency Placements
Congratulations to all of our recent MUA Grads! Please view our top appointments in US & Canada.
Residency Placements in recent years:
Post-Graduate Programs
A sampling of some of the post-graduate programs where MUA students have placed includes:
- Albert Einstein (Neurology)
- Case Western Reserve (Emergency Medicine)
- Cleveland Clinic Health System – Fairview Hospital (Surgery)
- Duke University (Psychiatry)
- Louisiana State University (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
- Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, St. Cloud, MN (Family Medicine)
- Michigan State University (Family Medicine)
- New York Medical College (Surgery)
- Queen’s University (Pediatrics)
- St. Vincent’s Medical Center – Connecticut (Diagnostic Radiology)
- Tulane (Neurology)
- University of Arizona (Internal Medicine)
- University of Florida (Pathology, Pediatrics)
- University of Nevada (Surgery)
- University of North Carolina (Anesthesiology)
- University of Pennsylvania (Anesthesiology)
- University of Saskatchewan (Surgery)
- University of Tennessee (Urology)
- University of Toronto (Neurosurgery)
Our successful MUA Graduate, Andy Truong
Launching a Career in Anesthesiology
Hear from Andy Truong as he sings the praises of Medical University of Americas along with his experience of moving to Nevis Island based in the Caribbean. Learn how the first semester was the hardest, with regular class tests to maintain the high-quality graduates that MUA produces.
Grail Sisters
Ronald Russo
An Upper Edge for Getting a Residency
Samir Gandhi
FB Live with Ivy Zhang
A Day in the Life of MUA Student, Camellia
Jennifer Ingersoll - Coming Home to North Carolina
Baieruss Trinos - Becoming a Hospitalist
Stefan's insight into Pre-Med program
Clement Aroh talking about his professors, and his life as a student at MUA
Alum Dr. Zakious Tracey
Brian Chwiecko
Adnan Qureshi - Earning a Surgery Residency
Mamoona Rafiq - Coming Home to Practice in Toronto
Emily Kurokawa - "MUA Was There for Me."
Graduate profiles
Dorothy Ann Sparks, MD, FACS
Acute Care Surgeon University of Tennessee Methodist University Hospital American Board of Surgery, Board Certified:
For a growing number of MD’s, including Dorothy Sparks, medicine was not their first choice. Dorothy had a degree in engineering and a career in academia when she decided to get her MD at Medical University of the Americas. Today she's an acute care surgeon in Tennessee.
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Adam S. Weltz, MD
Fellowship: Advanced Gastrointestinal Surgery/Minimally Invasive Surgery/ Robotic Surgery, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis Maryland
Fellowship: Advanced Gastrointestinal Surgery/Minimally Invasive Surgery/ Robotic Surgery, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis Maryland
Residency: PGY-(1-5) General Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center/ University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore MD
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Richard Rousseau, MD
Anesthesiology Resident at Louisiana State
It's always great when your career and your passion align. MUA Graduate Nasir Alhamdan did his undergraduate studies at Ryerson University in Canada. He completed his medical school pre-requisites in three years, making the Dean’s List and earning his undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Science.
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Sunil Ramaswamy MD
Critical Care Fellowship University of Rochester Medical Cente
After graduation from college with a B.A. in anthropology and history, Sunil spent his first year out of college playing bass in a rock band. Unsure about his next steps, he shadowed his father, an MD, on his rounds and fell in love with the patient interactions.
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Samantha Agar, MD
Family Medicine Residency Southern Illinois University
Samantha Agar practiced as a registered nurse both in labor and delivery and the neonatal intensive care unit at a hospital in Mississauga, Ontario after earning her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. As an undergraduate student at McMaster University School of Nursing, she was a standout student and received an award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Going to medical school was never far from her mind though. “I worked with a resident at my hospital who had told me about how she attended medical school in the Caribbean.
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Junaid Munshi, MD
Preceptor at both Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis University School of Medicine
Junaid Munshi did pre-med coursework as an undergraduate at St. Louis University. Wanting to give back to humanity, and citing the quote in the Quran ‘whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved all mankind.’ he settled on a career in medicine.
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Christopher Smith, MD
Internal Medicine Resident, Sinai Hospital Baltimore
As a teaching assistant in histology, neurology and microbiology at MUA, a volunteer at the Centre for Animal Rehabilitation on Nevis, Premier of Nevis Award recipient, and a Clinical Dean Award recipient, Christopher Smith made every moment count while at Medical University of the Americas. Thrilled to come to MUA in January 2014, he noted, "I was waiting tables and bartending before MUA gave me the opportunity to fulfill my lifelong dream and attend medical school".
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Dr. Ashad Abid
Double Fellowship in Geriatric and Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Brown University
Congratulations to MUA graduate Dr. Ashad Abid on your double fellowship in Geriatric and Hospice and Palliative medicine at Brown University! We are so proud and wish you much continued success.
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Habib A. Nazir, MD
Residency: Internal Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, RWJBarnabas Health
Doctors often liken the day-to-day life in a hospital as one of “putting out fires.” For Dr. Habib A. Nazir, this is literally true: he’s a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and also the medical director of fire services in Morganville, New Jersey.
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