In a recent AMA News report state medical boards are reportedly worried about the caliber of graduates as they look to become licensed in the US. Some state medical boards have even created lists of schools from which they will NOT license graduates. “This is becoming a huge issues on a national level and in California,” said Joyce Hadnot , chief of licenseing at the Medical Board of California. According to the AMA News report the number of new schools that have opened since 2000 is up to 29. In the 1990s only 8 new schools opened.
IMGs currently make up 25% of practicing physicians, most from established medical schools. the new Caribbean schools have little history and are geared towards training US citizens, many of whom probably were denied entrance at established allopathic or osteopathic US medical schools.
Some are calling for more standardized and uniform guidelines for licensing. For applicants, it makes sense for you to check your state medical board to be sure that they will license students graduating from a non-US medical school.
-Fool
