Are foreign medical graduates the answer to primary care?

I don’t think so.

As The Happy Hospitalist observes, many being practicing in rural areas to fulfill visa requirements, then leave to pursue specialty training programs.

As long as the same incentives exist that results in the lifestyle and salary disparity between primary care and specialists, both foreign physicians and mid-level providers will join the growing ranks of American-born doctors desiring to be specialists.

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