COUNTERPOINT: Should the United States Provide Postgraduate Training to International Medical Graduates? No

摘要

For many decades, international medical graduates (IMGs) have had a major role in staffing the health-care system of the United States. This occurs despite the great?difficulty that non-citizens have in enrolling in US?medical schools. Rather, many IMGs enter the US?health-care system as postgraduate trainees at the?residency or fellowship level. As an example, in the?2013?National Residency Match, IMGs comprised 36.8%?of the 34,355 match registrants and 5,775 IMGs matched into their preferred specialties that year.