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Foreign Medical Graduates: The Position of the American College of Physicians
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In an era of federal budgetary constraints and an apparent abundance of physicians, the appropriateness of federal funding of graduate medical education for foreign medical graduates is being questioned increasingly, particularly at a time when U.S. medical schools are being encouraged to reduce enrollments. Proposals that would simply end all funding of graduate medical education for foreign medical graduates fail to acknowledge the necessity of sharing America's medical knowledge with other nations, as well as the important contributions the foreign graduates make to the care of patients in this country who might otherwise be medically underserved.
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Acknowledgments
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This editorial summarizes a position paper of the American College of Physicians that was developed by the College's Health and Public Policy Committee and the Subcommittee on Health Care Professions. Members of the Health Care Professions Subcommittee at the time the paper was developed were Malcolm L. Peterson, M.D., Chairman; Thomas L. Delbanco, M.D.; Adrian L. Edwards, M.D.; Eugene A. Hildreth, M.D.; John F. Mueller, M.D.; and Morton I. Rapoport, M.D. Members of the Health and Public Policy Committee at the time the paper was developed were Edwin P. Maynard, M.D., Chairman; Theodore C. Eickhoff, M.D.; John M. Eisenberg, M.D.; Richard G. Farmer, M.D.; Boy Frame, M.D.; John R. Hogness, M.D.; William L. Hughes, M.D.; Charles E. Lewis, M.D.; Malcolm L. Peterson, M.D.; Richard J. Reitemeier, M.D.; Helen L. Smits, M.D.; and Paul D. Stolley, M.D. Ex officio members were Edward W. Hook, M.D., and Lawrence Scherr, M.D. The paper was adopted by the Board of Regents on 3 March 1986.
