5 reasons why IMGs will save U.S. health care

Spoiler alert: I am biased. I graduated from St. George’s University, a medical school in Grenada that graduates more physicians annually than any other medical school in the world. It is a school comprised of people who are so determined to become doctors that they are willing to move to a different country  —  some taking their families with them, some leaving everything behind  —  to study medicine. My peers came from all over the United States and Canada and had prior graduate degrees, prior jobs and life experiences. Eventually, we all came to the same conclusion: No career would make us happier than a career in medicine. We fought for our medical education. I was lucky to have supportive deans and clinical instructors, but certain things are out of administrative control. Power outages, tropical storms, water shortages. Alumni from earlier classes remember sitting in lecture halls post-hurricane Ivan, with rain falling through gaping holes in the roof onto their notepads. I’ll never forget the time (which turned out to be multiple times) when the local airline workers went on strike, and I slept and studied in the airport in Trinidad for two days. We joked that our school was like Hogwarts from Harry Potter  —  the elusive school that could only be reached by magic. Most significantly, we were all thousands of miles from friends and family, our support systems, our rocks. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Ma...
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