The international medical graduate in US academic general surgery.

Open Access

1 February 1998

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery

Vol. 133 (2) , 130-133
https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.133.2.130

Abstract

SINCE THE early 1960s international medical graduates (IMGs) have played a major role in the provision of health care in the United States. In 1963, IMGs formed a little more than 10% of the physician work force; by 1970, this number had risen to almost 18%.¹ Today, IMGs constitute about 24% of US physicians.¹

Keywords

FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES
GENERAL SURGERY
SCHOOLS
MEDICAL
SURGICAL PROCEDURES
OPERATIVE
TAIWAN
ASIA
SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH AMERICA
INDIA

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Medical migration and the physician workforce. International medical graduates and American medicine
JAMA, 1995
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Academic Medicine, 1989