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The Journey of a Foreign-Trained Physician to a United States Residency

Luis R. Leon, Jr MD, RVTlow asterisk, †, Corresponding Author Contact Information, Hugo Villar MD, FACSlow asterisk, †, Christine R. Leon PTlow asterisk, †, ‡, Shemuel B. Psalms BSHSlow asterisk and Gerard Aranha MD, MBBS, FRCS(C), FACS‡

†University of Arizona Health Science Center, Tucson, AZ
‡Department of Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
low asteriskSouthern Arizona Veteran Affairs Healthcare System, Tucson, AZ

Received 20 October 2006; revised 29 November 2006; accepted 4 December 2006. Available online 24 February 2007.

Abbreviations: ACGME, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; ECFMG, Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates; FMG, foreign medical graduate; GME, graduate medical education; HPSA, health professional shortage area; IGA, interested government agency; USMLE,next term United States Medical Licensure Examination

Article Outline

Certification process
Graduate medical education (the residency application)
The interview
The “Match”
The post-Match scramble
Immigration issues

Nonimmigrant visas: the J-1 visa
Requirements
Two-year home residency requirement
Waiver of the 2-year home residency requirement
Immigration and FMGs
Historical evolution of J-1 waivers

References

Medical students from developing countries frequently use educational materials written in developed nations, thereby learning information that often cannot be applied because of low socioeconomic conditions in their regions. In addition to training limitations and scarce job offers, low wages and social insecurity are causes of major frustration. Graduate medical education (GME) offered in the United States (US) is allegedly far better than that in other areas of the world. Many foreign-trained physicians, or foreign medical graduates (FMGs), try to enter the US hoping to obtain excellence in medical training and better living conditions. Some of them are successful, but many others are not. Nevertheless, FMGs have now become core players in the US health system, constituting 25% of its workforce.1 Trend analysis in GME shows that more FMGs will be part of the primary care personnel of the future.2

Today, large health professional shortage areas (HPSAs), where citizens have suboptimal access to health care, are highly dependent on FMGs.3 But their presence in this country is perceived as detrimental by many and has become controversial. These controversies are debated greatly in specialized venues, yet awareness of this issue among the general public and US physicians is low. The aim of this article is to describe the steps that an FMG needs to go through to migrate to the US and to increase overall awareness of the current situation of an FMG in the US.

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The Journey of a Foreign-Trained Physician to a United States Residency
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