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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should have 3 years of heavily focused undergrad followed by a year of a related medical experience (paid internship) and then med school.

And they need to let more kids into med school. We need more American-educated doctors. [/quote]

Sigh. This was addressed above. It's not as simple as simply admitting more students. Could you pack more into the lecture halls? Sure (especially now that lots of students don't go to lecture, it's recorded and many watch it ... or plan to anyway ... later). But there simply are not enough rotation sites or residency sites. Medical training is a lot more than sitting in a class room. [/quote]

Then why do we need so many foreign doctors?  Why don’t we invest and make this career more feasible for Americans?[/quote]
Foreign doctors often have to do additional training or testing here.

Going to a Caribbean medical school is a terrible idea (was mentioned above). [/quote]

This is what I don’t understand.  All these foreign educated doctors are doing reaidencies in the U.S.?  How can you say there aren’t enough residencies spots to add more slots to American med schools?  Couldn’t some of those residencies slots gojng yo foreign educated doctors just go to American educated ones? [/quote]

No. It isn't this simple.

First, although there are slots that go to IMGs, there are not a lot of them and they don't tend to be the most desirable ones. I have experience with this -- I've worked with IMGs seeking residency in the US. Second[b], most IMGs have been licensed and have been practicing medicine for years in another country. They have a lot of experience with patient care, but need to do a residency here to become acclimated to the American healthcare system and get licensed here. [/b]Given that residents are the workhorses in any teaching hospital, it often makes sense to bring these folks onboard -- they hit the ground running and provide more patient care than a student straight out of med school can or will. Finally, the finite number of residency slots is not the only issue -- there is a lack of rotation slots as well (this is actually a big problem right now, and I hear med students complain about it a lot).

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100%, yes, agree!
And furthermore, to the PP, American MD programs match 98% of their students, the top 50 match 100% every year unless someone only lists one or two programs which is strongly discouraged. The DO programs that struggle with matching over 80% of their students are because many DO programs do not have enough hospital-ward or specialty-clinic rotation spots for their students! Residency programs do not want to take students who lack the right depth of training. Preference always goes to MD programs in the US or the handful of known top DO programs. IMGs do not take spots from adequately trained US med students. [/quote]

I have no issue with what you are saying.

My question is why is the US importing doctors to do residency instead of training those doctors here? [b] I don't find the argument that those doctors have been practicing a few years abroad before they come a compelling one[/b].[/quote]

That's because you aren't an attending at a teaching hospital that has more patients than it can handle. [/quote]

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