If upheld, one of the ramifications of President Trump’s restrictions on travel from seven nations could be fewer primary-care doctors for areas of the United States where they are badly needed. In criticizing Trump’s executive order, the Association of American Medical Colleges notes that the U.S. faces a serious shortage of physicians. International graduates represent roughly 25 percent of the medical workforce. In the last decade, says the association, one immigration program alone directed nearly 10,000 physicians into rural and urban underserved communities. “Impeding these U.S. immigration pathways,†the association says, “jeopardizes critical access to high-quality physician care for our nation’s most vulnerable populations.†On today’s show, Dr. John Cmar, director of the residency program in internal medicine at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, discusses the role foreign medical-school graduates play in the U.S. health-delivery system.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-donald-trump-travel-ban-20170206-story.htmlhttps://news.aamc.org/press-releases/article/executive-order-immigration-013017/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/sns-tns-bc-immigrants-medicalstudents-20170202-story,amp.htmlhttp://www.lifebridgehealth.org/Sinai/AMessagefromtheProgramDirector6.aspxhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/sns-tns-bc-immigrants-medicalstudents-20170202-story,amp.html
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