Medically underserved areas and International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the United States: challenges during the COVID-19 era

The road to residency in United States: dilemma of International Medical Graduates (IMGs).

Do international medical graduates (IMGs) "fill the gap" in rural primary care in the United States? A national study.

CONTEXT The contribution that international medical graduates (IMGs) make to reducing the rural-urban maldistribution of physicians in the United States is unclear. Quantifying the extent of such "gap filling" has significant implications for planning IMG workforce needs as well as other state and federal initiatives to increase the numbers of rural providers. PURPOSE To compare the practice ...

Immunization coverage levels among 19- to 35-month-old children in 4 diverse, medically underserved areas of the United States.

BACKGROUND The National Immunization Survey demonstrates that national immunization coverage in 2002 remained near the all-time highs achieved in 2000. However, that survey cannot detect whether coverage is uniformly high within relatively small areas or populations. The measles resurgence in the early 1990s revealed that coverage was low in some areas, particularly among inner-city children fr...

Training Needs of International Medical Graduates [IMGs] in Psychiatry

The potential shortage of psychiatrists over the next 5 10 years has focused attention on the need to recruit more IMGs to fill the needs rather than use nurse practitioners or physician assistants. IMGs make up about 1/3 of first year psychiatry residents. These individuals have been found to provide services to the poor, the elderly and the psychotic. The quality of their medical work has bee...

Foreign medical graduates in the United States.

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