More than one-quarter of applicants for U.S. residency programs are foreign medical graduates. In 2025, 9,761 international medical graduates matched to a residency program in the U.S. out of a pool estimated to be as high as 15,000 who wanted to come. Some of these were U.S. citizens attending school abroad, but most were foreign born and educated abroad.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Monday Links
- Immigrant geniuses: Between 1990 and 2019, migrants from China, India, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines accounted for nearly 40 percent of the growth in America’s software-developer ranks, a quarter of new scientists and engineers, and a fifth of additional physicians.
- Effect of students’ failure to learn: the lifetime earnings of today’s average student will be an estimated 8 percent lower than that of students in 2013.
- Why aren’t there more HSAs in exchange plans?
- Based on data from almost 2 million species, researchers found that in the last 200 years, there was no evidence for increasing extinction from climate change.
Friday Links
- Average wait to see a new doctor is 31 days.
- Poll: 57 percent of voters in 16 GOP-held battleground districts said they were more likely to choose a congressional candidate who voted to preserve the Affordable Care Act tax credits.
- India has become the world’s pharmacy. HIV drugs sell for a dollar a day.
- Roughly 40% of the US population lives in an area where the water is not fluoridated.
- 6% of US students are being homeschooled.
NYT: People Turn to AI Chatbots When Doctors Are Too Busy
Consumers are beginning to use AI for more than just entertainment and trivia. Many patients are using AI chatbots for mental health counseling and to answer medical questions they are unable to get from their doctors.