Discrimination against international medical graduates in the United States residency program selection process
Open Access
- 25 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Medical Education
- Vol. 10 (1) , 5
Abstract
Available evidence suggests that international medical graduates have improved the availability of U.S. health care while maintaining academic standards. We wondered whether studies had been conducted to address how international graduates were treated in the post-graduate selection process compared to U.S. graduates.Keywords
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