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Foreign doctors flood residency program

May 29, 2007 — 8:01pm ET
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Call it a sign of the times. For the first time, more than half the physicians entering residencies at Detroit's Wayne State University are coming in from non-U.S. medical programs. This year, foreign-educated students will fill 91 of the school's 162 residency slots, an influx which mirrors the experience of many programs in the U.S.. The new crop of students is particularly striking given that only 37 of the school's own graduates will take part in the program. School administrators argue that foreign-born doctors bring much-needed ethnic diversity to the program, particularly given the growing diversity of the U.S. population. Not only will the influx of foreign physicians diversify the WSU program, it will also add diversity to the state's long-term physician population. WSU has found that 60 percent of graduates stay in the state to practice after they finish their education.

To get more background on this trend:
- read this Detroit Free Press article

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By LUIS PORTAL | Posted 3:38pm | May 30, 2007

As you now Australia will
stop immigration of AIDS
cases and other Chronic diseases as Leprae.Why do not
doing in unskilled migrant .
On the other hand Physicians abroad have more experience in Clinical Cases because students learn in vivo not in plastic models.

By Dr without a job | Posted 8:02pm | July 7, 2009

The real truth is that program directors jobs and the accreditation of the programs are at stake if the residents do not pass their exams. What is happening is all the programs across the country are taken more and more doctors who have already completed training in their own country so the residency programs themselves do not have to spent alot of time training them. The directors know they will pass all the service exams and they will not be at threat of losing their own jobs by administration. Plus, the programs hold a visa on these foreign doctors so they are "slave" labor. If you get fired they must leave the US.

The sad thing is myself and many others have 200K+ in student loans that we can not repay. Even with my MD degree I can not compete for a residency with a doctor from India who has been in practice for 15 years. Residency programs have fallen victim to money, greed, and lazyness.

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