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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (235447)7/6/2007 10:59:54 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
US Seeks More Foreign Doctors, Medical Students
By Saba Shah Khan, John Featherly
Washington, D.C.
24 November 2006

voanews.com

In the US, Indians and Indian-Americans make up the largest non-Caucasian segment of the American medical community, where they account for one in every 20 practicing doctors.

yaleglobal.yale.edu

Foreign doctors in the U.S.

Number of physicians in the US: 794,893

Number of foreign graduate physicians in the US: 185,234 (from 127 countries)

Percentage of foreign physicians in US training programs: 24%

This is not a new phenomenon. Foreign physicians have made up this percentage of the US physician population for decades.

righttruth.typepad.com

See also: blogs.ilw.com
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