Numbers of Foreign Medical Grads per JAMA, ones being given are too low.....

The numbers given are too low for the International Medical Graduate Doctors wanting to come in to the USA are too low!

Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, Sept. 6, 2006  

 

Additionally NEJM New England Journal of Medicine reports a shortage of Physicians in the future so we will need more foreign gradusates. 

What this figure masks, however, is the fact that without these IMG's the United States would suffer an even worse shortage than MGT of America(a higher-education consulting firm based in Tallahassee, Florida) predicted. The truth is that the number of U.S. medical graduates has declined steadily as a percentage per 100,000 population. From 1981 to 1999 the numbers of U.S. medical graduates per 100,000 population dropped 16%. They are predicted to drop another 16% by 2020 if nothing changes.

 

	Number of IMGs
	Registered for clinical skills exam	In the Match
2001	7,938	7,115
2002	9,892	6,585
2003	11,845	7,016
2004	11,636	7,686
2005	16,443	7,645
2006	18,109	8,877

 

 

 

 

 

IMGs as residents

One in every four medical residents in the U.S. is an international medical graduate. In 2005, the latest data available, this is how the number of IMG residents broke down:

Permanent resident	6,744	24.4%
Native U.S. citizen	4,296	15.5%
J exchange visitor visa	3,844	13.9%
H temporary worker visa	3,768	13.6%
Naturalized U.S. citizen	2,789	10.1%
F student visa	104	0.4%
Refugee/displaced person	123	0.4%
B temporary visitor visa	87	0.3%
Other	536	1.9%
Unknown	5,345	19.3%
Total	27,636	100.0%

 

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