{"id":362,"date":"2016-05-12T16:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sopenet\/2016\/05\/12\/how-to-break-down-barriers-that-keep-out-potential-immigrant-physician-entrepreneurs\/"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:18:17","slug":"how-to-break-down-barriers-that-keep-out-potential-immigrant-physician-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/how-to-break-down-barriers-that-keep-out-potential-immigrant-physician-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Break Down Barriers That Keep Out Potential Immigrant Physician Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">For some mysterious reason, American citizens who go to medical school outside of the US are called &ldquo;international medical graduates&rdquo; (IMGs) and those who are not American citizens who trained in other countries are called &ldquo;foreign medical graduates&rdquo; (FMGs). The checkpoint that determines whether you can practice medicine in the US is whether you can match into a post-medical school residency. The odds of doing so for IMGs is much higher than the odds for FMGs, which, for the latter, can be as high as 50%.&nbsp;Consequently, there are many FMGs who are qualified or have post-medical degrees like MBAs, Masters in biological sciences, or MPH degrees, yet still have a hard time getting a job using their skills. Many face immigration or student visa issues and are anxious because the meter is running out.&nbsp; &#8211; See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcplive.com\/physicians-money-digest\/contributor\/arlen-meyers-md-mba\/2016\/05\/how-to-break-down-barriers-that-keep-out-potential-immigrant-physician-entrepreneurs#sthash.H5vY1CwR.dpuf\">http:\/\/www.hcplive.com\/physicians-money-digest\/contributor\/arlen-meyers-md-mba\/2016\/05\/how-to-break-down-barriers-that-keep-out-potential-immigrant-physician-entrepreneurs#sthash.H5vY1CwR.dpuf<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some mysterious reason, American citizens who go to medical school outside of the US are called &ldquo;international medical graduates&rdquo; (IMGs) and those who are not American citizens who trained in other countries are called &ldquo;foreign medical graduates&rdquo; (FMGs). The checkpoint that determines whether you can practice medicine in the US is whether you can&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/how-to-break-down-barriers-that-keep-out-potential-immigrant-physician-entrepreneurs\/\" title=\"Read How to Break Down Barriers That Keep Out Potential Immigrant Physician Entrepreneurs\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}