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Would you go to a Caribbean medical school educated physician?
However, the AMA has such a stranglehold on the system, they make the entrance exams and residency requirements way more difficult for foreign doctors
The problem is the number of residencies, which should be doubled, but their work hours restricted to 40 per week.
I've seen 3 people in my family go through a residency. There is no way to pick up the skills needed at 40 hours a week unless residency length doubled. The amount of work and training involved is just unreal.
I don't want exhausted people who aren't qualified to work without supervision taking care of people. There's no reason people handling life and death issues should be half-asleep while working.
We still allow doctors to wear bacteria collection rags (aka Ties) when dealing with patients, and we don't ruthlessly discipline them - up to and including suspension like Australia - for not washing their hands between clients. If only they weren't under such time pressure...
This was in the 70s buddy. And my father went to bed school in Just....which is why I was born in El Paso. Here's some food for thought. My father didn't speak Spanish yet got through the program. What was he going to learn if he can't even speak the language. He worked his ass off too. Just on his own.
When he did his residency in NJ, it was six years for prenatal care and he was required to do another 3 on top of that for having a foreign degre
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