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.
2020 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
Oluseyi Ogundimu, MD, MBA
Anesthesiologist/Pain Physician, Advanced Pain Centers, Farmington, MO
An honours graduate in Biochemistry from Canada’s Brock University, Oluseyi (Sheyi) Ogundimu focused first on getting an MBA before deciding to take the plunge and realize his dream of becoming a physician. Today, this 2008 graduate of Medical University of the Americas is a board certified anesthesiologist practicing in the St. Louis area.
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Syed Imran Zaidi and Fazila Zaidi - Couple Match
Imran matching into Internal Medicine and Fazila into Pediatrics together in Tennessee
After graduating with a degree in Biological Sciences and Biochemistry from the University of Windsor in Canada, MUA “checked all the boxes” for Syed Imran when it came time to doing his medical school research. “I looked into tuition, saw the school had a very good match rate, and knew someone going to school”.
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Eyad Ahmed MD-Pre-Match into Internal Medicine Residency
Internal Medicine Resident
“The happiest day of my life was when MUA decided to take a chance on me and accept me into the school,” says Eyad Ahmed. Currently placed in an Internal Medicine Residency at St. Michael’s Medicine Center in Newark, Eyad says: “It is a dream come true that now, as a graduate of MUA, I have matched with a residency 30 minutes from where I grew up”.
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Kara Roncin, MD
Residency: Pathology Anatomical and Clinical
Growing up in small town in central Canada, Kara Roncin was used to a world where everyone knows your name. At Medical University of the Americas, she thrived in the atmosphere of community and hard work that helped propel her to a pathology residency at Case Western Reserve University.
Kara Roncin grew up in Allan, Saskatchewan, an hour’s drive from Saskatoon. She always knew she would become a doctor. “I knew from an early age that medicine was where I wanted to spend my career, no matter how long and grueling the road to get there was.”
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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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Peter Plumeri, MD
Internal Medicine Resident, Sinai Hospital Baltimore
As a dual citizen with the United States and Italy, Peter is passionate about Italian literature and is proficient in Italian. He is also a member of Phi Sigma Iota, the International Foreign Language Honor Society. It was while working on his masters in Italian literature at Rutgers that he began volunteering on the side in his dad's gastroenterology office, shadowing doctors in the procedures of endoscopies and colonoscopies.
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