there has been a rumor on valuemd forums that FMGs will not be able to obtain US residencies in the near future. Seeing as there are so many more residency spots than US grads and a large percentage of US physicians comprising of FMGs, is there any validity to this?

well no, cause there are more residency positions than us grads---who will fill those positions?

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yeah, people have gotta stop posting these kinda things...let rumors be until proven otherwise.

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I think this rumor sprang from the idea for US med schools to create more spots to help fill a growing fear that the need for doctors in the future will outstrip the ability to supply them, especially homegrown ones.

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I think what you may have heard is that US allopath and osteopathic schools are increasing their enrollment, which I believe is true. It's not going to be enough to effect us in the near or probably far future, but may affect us someday. I wouldn't worry about it too much right now. With the impending shortage of doctors, even if they increase the # of U.S. medical students, they have to increase the total # of residencies in order to increase the number of licensed physicians in the U.S, so we would end up competing for the same 25% left over spots that we always have.

Make sense?

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I just took this really interesting class: Health Systems Management. In that class we dissected the problem with decreasing numbers of residents and medical graduates in the U.S. It was actually the class that gave me the idea to become a FMG. FWG are actually considered a cost-benefit analysis solution for the demand-production problem facing the U.S. There is also a stigma for doctors that are not Americans coming to America - that sucks - b/c a lot of good doc I know at Tulane are international. Anyway, there is no way they would decrease FMG's b/c AAMC has NOT increased the number of student that are accepted each year so the solutions are: take FMG - be they international or American or increase osteopathic residents - or both.

Actually, a very very high percentage of carib students are from the US. So..... wouldn't this be a case of biting the hand that feeds them?

I assure you, when US Schools decide to increase enrollment they are not thinking of solving the long term doctor shortage. What they do see is plenty of US citizens going offshore, and they see dollar bills that they missed their chance on.

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