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This question is not clear.Are you already an IMG? That is, have you already graduated from medical school?But you want to start over in medical school, specifically at Harvard Medical School — which has about a 2% acceptance rate — to earn a very expensive MD?And you don't want to take USMLE exams? All medical students at Harvard Medical School take USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 exams during medical school.Or are you an IMG who would like to get into a residency program at one of the Harvard-affiliated Hospitals and Research InstitutesBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBrigham and Women’s HospitalCambridge Health AllianceChildren’s Hospital BostonDana-Farber Cancer InstituteForsyth InstituteHarvard Pilgrim Health CareHebrew SeniorLifeJoslin Diabetes CenterJudge Baker Children’s CenterMassachusetts Eye and Ear InfirmaryMassachusetts General HospitalMcLean HospitalMount Auburn HospitalSchepens Eye Research InstituteSpaulding Rehabilitation HospitalVeterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System(Some of these only offer fellowships)Residency applicants in the USA must take USMLE Step 1 & 2 (CS and CK) BEFORE they enter a residency.Some of the Boston residency programs only accept US medical school graduates. These programs do not offer visas for residency positions, and do not have staff people who help process visas.You could clarify this by indicating if you are applying to medical school, or if you are applying to a residency program at a hospital. Either way, you will take USMLE exams at some point.Fellowships have different requirements.

Are you sure you want to repeat medical school after you have already completed medical school in your country?From the Harvard Medical School admissions website:Candidates who have matriculated in any other medical school are not eligible to be considered for admission, regardless of the reason for leaving the other program. In many countries, students enter medical school directly from advanced secondary school. If you are currently enrolled in any medical school, or were enrolled previously, you are ineligible to apply to Harvard Medical School.However, if you are you an IMG who would like to match into a medical residency training program at one of the Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research institutes, you have options. The Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research institutes offer many residency programs:Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBrigham and Women’s HospitalCambridge Health AllianceChildren’s Hospital BostonDana-Farber Cancer InstituteForsyth InstituteHarvard Pilgrim Health CareHebrew SeniorLifeJoslin Diabetes CenterJudge Baker Children’s CenterMassachusetts Eye and Ear InfirmaryMassachusetts General HospitalMcLean HospitalMount Auburn HospitalSchepens Eye Research InstituteSpaulding Rehabilitation HospitalVeterans Affairs Boston Healthcare SystemSome of these only offer fellowships.Some do not accept international applicants who need a visa. Don’t waste your money applying to residency programs that do not accept international applicants.Your pathway to residency admission is the same for Harvard as it is for any other residency program.You will need ECFMG certification to be eligible to apply to residencies.You will need to graduate from an ECFMG-eligible Medical school.You will need adequate scores on USMLE step 1 and step 2 CK & CS exams.Many of the Harvard residency programs require IMGs to have US clinical experience. Some programs specify that applicants must have clinical experience in their program.You will need very strong letters of reference from US doctors who have observed your clinical competence and can describe this in ACGME terms.The pathway to a US residency is expensive. Before you begin, plan your financial needs.Good luck.

For most, I expect it's because they needed a job.Confining people against their will is contrary to the moral values most of us have. We're generally taught to respect one another's freedom and movement. Putting people in jail or prison may be lawful and even necessary (sometimes, at least), but it's still a distasteful practice most of us don't want to have anything to do with.Detention/corrections officers (COs, hereafter) are critical to the justice system. From the security perspective, they ensure that inmates stay incarcerated until the state says it's okay to release them. Inmates may resent or even despise them, but they're still necessary to ensure the inmates are fed, their medications are administered, public health and hygiene matters are attended to, and that stronger inmates are not allowed to victimize weaker ones.All of these objectives suffer, because administering a prison is a continuing compromise between institutional security and inmate welfare. It would be simple to lock each inmate in an individual cell, feed them Nutraloaf, delivered to the cell, and maybe hose them down once a week, never allowing them out of the cell until it's time for them to leave. This would also result in inmates becoming fully de-socialized, mentally ill (or more mentally ill than they were before), and suicidal. To avoid this, inmates are mostly allowed to leave their cells or dormitories/bunkrooms, take meals together, congregate and exercise in an open yard, attend religious meetings, and work or attend classes while in custody.Each of these things provides opportunity to subvert institutional security by allowing communications, manufacture and pass weapons, import and distribute contraband, and even escape. The COs are there to keep this from happening. They're generally more successful than not, although every prison has its failures and problematic incidents.COs don't enjoy the social status that police officers and firefighters have. Both the police and fire services are viewed as exciting, "hero" jobs by many, if not most, people. It's not at all uncommon for a child to express a desire to be a police officer or firefighter when they grow up. If they said they wanted to be a prison guard, their parents would rush them into therapy.Corrections is a professional field, and there are many professional-grade people in the job, doing the best they can and trying every day to get better. Still, it is often the second choice for unsuccessful police applicants and people without marketable job skills. The job doesn't usually involve a lot of difficult labor, the pay and benefits are regular and secure, and most systems always have openings.When I was teaching in Georgia, the state academy in Forsyth was turning out a class of 30-60 new COs every three weeks, and had been doing that for a while. There were just as many people going out the back door as coming in the front, so the demand for new COs never let up.Personally, I admire COs for doing a job that is difficult at best, and something I don't want to do. I would be pretty nervous if I spent my days locked in a facility with convicted felons who mostly hated me, and I had only a radio and maybe a baton to defend myself with. I wish they could be valued more by society.