The international mobility of healthcare professionals is a well-documented phenomenon that has dynamic effects on global healthcare, labor markets, and the world economy. One aspect of this phenomenon—the movement of international medical graduates (IMGs) to the United States for residency training is often criticized because of the “brain drain” from their home countries. We propose a differe...

© 2009 Society of Rural Physicians of Canada 120 T he shortage of health care professionals providing services to rural and remote regions has long been recognized as a significant problem in the delivery of Canadian health care. Rural Canada encompasses 99.8% of Canada’s land mass and about 21% of the population, yet is served by only 16% of its general practitioners (GPs) and 2% of specialist...

The exceptional importance of international medical graduates (IMGs) in academic psychiatry (1, 2) is underscored in this special theme issue of our journal. As noted by Boulet et al. in this collection, about 31% of the psychiatry workforce in the United States are IMGs, and about 32% are psychiatry residents (3). In clinical psychiatric practice, IMGs disproportionately serve poor patients an...

To the Editor: I recently learned that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has issued new ACGME Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education that will go into effect July 1, 2016. The changes pertinent to or-thopedic surgery residencies and fellowships were recently shared and discussed with the corresponding program directors in preparation for their impleme...

OBJECTIVE To compare international medical graduates (IMGs) with Canadian medical school graduates in a family practice residency program. DESIGN Analysis of the results of the in-training evaluation reports (ITERs) and the Certification in Family Medicine (CCFP) examination results for 2 cohorts of IMGs and Canadian-trained graduates between the years 2006 and 2008. SETTING St Paul's Hospi...

INTRODUCTION Rural residents of the United States (US) and Canada face problems in accessing healthcare. International medical graduates (IMGs) play an important role in delivering rural healthcare. IMGs from Caribbean medical schools have the highest proportion of physicians in primary care.  Xavier University School of Medicines admits students from the US, Canada and other countries to the u...

Rural residents of the United States (US) and Canada face Introduction: problems in accessing healthcare. International medical graduates (IMGs) play an important role in delivering rural healthcare. IMGs from Caribbean medical schools have the highest proportion of physicians in primary care. Xavier University School of Medicines admits students from the US, Canada and other countries to the u...

Interest in nephrology as a career is declining and has been on the decline for nearly one decade. From 2002 to 2009, all internal medicine subspecialties except geriatric medicine increased the number of available fellowship positions. However, only two subspecialties attracted fewer United States medical graduates (USMGs) in 2009 than in 2002: geriatric medicine and nephrology. This drop occu...

With the increasing diversity in population of United States, efforts and interest healthcare have followed. The article offers an insightful review recent studies evaluating role women underrepresented minorities (URM) Urology order to better understand state Latinas Urology. We representation urology residency State (U.S.), international medical graduates (IMGs) urology, most initiatives deve...

Recent publications have expressed the view that there is a shortage of cardiologists and it is growing worse. Both an increasing demand and a diminishing supply of cardiologists have been projected. An increase in the number of international medical graduates (IMGs) who enter cardiology practice has been proposed as a remedy for a projected shortage. The IMGs have to overcome challenges includ...