'Doctors without Jobs' Bring Their Message to D.C.

[rangerrebew]

'Doctors without Jobs' Bring Their Message to D.C.
 
Fri, Feb 12th 2021 @ 9:08 am EST  by  Eric Ruark
Over the last week of January, members of the group Doctors without Jobs came to Washington, D.C. to educate Members of Congress on their issue – that 6,570 U.S.-citizen medical school graduates in good standing are unmatched with residencies.

Without residency training, doctors can’t practice medicine, which means medical school graduates, many burdened with debt, are stuck in career limbo waiting for a residency match that may never come

As we pointed out last August, despite the claims made by many in the media, and by politicians who are pushing legislation that will expand the number of foreign doctors admitted into the country, there is no shortage of doctors in the United Sates.

https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/doctors-without-jobs-comes-dc-bring-attention-us-citizens-passed-over-residencies

[PeteS in CA]

Why is this in the Immigration forum?

That said, matching med school graduates with residencies is not a Federal function.

[Smokin Joe]

Why is this in the Immigration forum?

That said, matching med school graduates with residencies is not a Federal function.

I believe it is here because importing foreign doctors is making it more difficult for the already graduated med students to get residency, and complete their certifications to be practicing MDs.

[txradioguy]

I wonder if any of those doctors have considered going out into flyover country to the smaller hospitals and doing their residency where it would do the most good?

Sure it's not the glamorous flashy type big city hospital setting...but there are small hospitals and communities all across America that need a good doctor to treat them.

[PeteS in CA]

I wonder if any of those doctors have considered going out into flyover country to the smaller hospitals and doing their residency where it would do the most good?

Sure it's not the glamorous flashy type big city hospital setting...but there are small hospitals and communities all across America that need a good doctor to treat them.

I didn't say it above, but I also suspect that a good many of those "Doctors without Jobs" are sans residencies due to their own various personal decisions/issues: turning down smaller hospitals; not applying to smaller and rural hospitals; not having the kind of grades large prestigious hospitals want their residents to have.