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> AAMC reports 20% of doctors and med students are foreign born and educated This is by design: https://www.newsweek.com/there-are-limited-spots-doctors-medica
by like_any_other 13d ago
> AAMC reports 20% of doctors and med students are foreign born and educated
This is by design: https://www.newsweek.com/there-are-limited-spots-doctors-medical-schools-were-giving-them-away-foreigners-opinion-1789324 https://www.newsweek.com/there-are-limited-spots-doctors-med...
(And 20% is barely above the overall US foreign born population, which is at 15%: https://www.statista.com/chart/8083/immigrants-foreign-born-united-states/ https://www.statista.com/chart/8083/immigrants-foreign-born-...)
- rinconrex 13d agoAre the foreign students we let in better than the 20% of US students that are excluded? If they are much better, I guess I don't see the problem. The better solution (for me) is to open up the slots since there is such a huge shortage of doctors. NPs and RNs are not going to make up that expertise gap.
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