Overcoming Cultural Barriers: International Medical Graduates in the United States

Foreign medical graduates in the United States.

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Role of international medical graduates providing office-based medical care: United States, 2005-2006.

In 2005-2006, about one-quarter (24.6%) of all visits to office-based physicians were to international medical graduates. Hispanic or Latino and Asian or Pacific Islander patients made more visits to international medical graduates (24.9%) than to U.S. medical graduates (12.4%). International medical graduates also saw a higher percentage of visits made by patients expecting to use Medicaid or ...

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

Discrimination against international medical graduates in the United States residency program selection process

BACKGROUND Available evidence suggests that international medical graduates have improved the availability of U.S. health care while maintaining academic standards. We wondered whether studies had been conducted to address how international graduates were treated in the post-graduate selection process compared to U.S. graduates. METHODS We conducted a Medline search for research on the select...

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 ...