Key Words: Letters International Medical School Graduates Admissions CriteriaTO THE EDITOR: The prospect of an oversupply of physicians has led some experts to propose a reduction of the total number of graduating residents to 110% or 120% of the number of graduates of U.S. medical schools. However, not everybody agrees with the prediction of an oversupply of physicians. There is also some evidence that medicine has attempted to address this issue through various measures, including limiting the number of international medical school graduates (IMGs) entering residency programs. Nasir (1) demonstrated a pattern of dissimilarity in the way family practice programs responded to requests for residency applications. In this study, 50% of responding programs replied to an IMG applicant, whereas 90% replied to a U.S. medical school graduate asking for an application for residency. We conducted a similar study (2), in which residency programs in psychiatry responded significantly more frequently to a U.S. medical school graduate asking for an application than they did to an IMG. We then investigated whether the results of our study among psychiatry programs are applicable to other disciplines; that is, whether other disciplines respond more frequently to an application request from a
Differences in Selecting U.S. and International Medical Graduates for U.S. Residency Programs
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Key Words: Letters International Medical School Graduates Admissions CriteriaTO THE EDITOR: The prospect of an oversupply of physicians has led some experts to propose a reduction of the total number of graduating residents to 110% or 120% of the number of graduates of U.S. medical schools. However, not everybody agrees with the prediction of an oversupply of physicians. There is also some evidence that medicine has attempted to address this issue through various measures, including limiting the number of international medical school graduates (IMGs) entering residency programs. Nasir (1) demonstrated a pattern of dissimilarity in the way family practice programs responded to requests for residency applications. In this study, 50% of responding programs replied to an IMG applicant, whereas 90% replied to a U.S. medical school graduate asking for an application for residency. We conducted a similar study (2), in which residency programs in psychiatry responded significantly more frequently to a U.S. medical school graduate asking for an application than they did to an IMG. We then investigated whether the results of our study among psychiatry programs are applicable to other disciplines; that is, whether other disciplines respond more frequently to an application request from a
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Differences in Selecting U.S. and International Medical Graduates for U.S. Residency Programs
Balon, Richard; Naseem, Ahsan; Kribat, Ravi S.; Moore, Todd; Bowman, Phillip; Riba, Michelle
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, Volume 25 (3): 184
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Sep 1, 2001
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