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Foreign medical graduates and U.S. physician supply: old issues and new questions. 1993

S S Mick

School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.

Recent increases in the number of foreign medical graduates (FMGs) in U.S. hospital-training positions raise new questions about the future role of FMGs in U.S. medicine. Despite an historical surplus of physicians, forces such as greater demand for resident house officers, stabilization in undergraduate medical education enrollment, increase in demand for medical services, growth in both the number of women in medicine and physician employment in group practices, and continuing imbalances in the distribution of physicians favor FMG migration to the United States. Health system reform must be sensitive to the historical, current, and future role FMGs play in medical care delivery, especially in regard to service in underserved areas, specialties, and employment settings.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010820	Physicians	Individuals licensed to practice medicine.	Physician
D010822	Physicians, Women	Women licensed to practice medicine.	Women Physicians,Physician, Woman,Physicians, Woman,Woman Physician,Woman Physicians
D003625	Data Collection	Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data.	Data Collection Methods,Dual Data Collection,Collection Method, Data,Collection Methods, Data,Collection, Data,Collection, Dual Data,Data Collection Method,Method, Data Collection,Methods, Data Collection
D004504	Education, Medical, Undergraduate	The period of medical education in a medical school. In the United States it follows the baccalaureate degree and precedes the granting of the M.D.	Medical Education, Undergraduate,Education, Undergraduate Medical,Undergraduate Medical Education
D005260	Female		Females
D005550	Foreign Medical Graduates	Physicians who hold degrees from medical schools in countries other than the ones in which they practice.	Foreign Medical Graduate,Graduate, Foreign Medical,Graduates, Foreign Medical,Medical Graduate, Foreign,Medical Graduates, Foreign
D006123	Group Practice	Any group of three or more full-time physicians organized in a legally recognized entity for the provision of health care services, sharing space, equipment, personnel and records for both patient care and business management, and who have a predetermined arrangement for the distribution of income.	Group Practices,Practice, Group,Practices, Group
D006280	Health Workforce	The availability of HEALTH PERSONNEL. It includes the demand and recruitment of both professional and allied health personnel, their present and future supply and distribution, and their assignment and utilization.	Health Manpower,Health Occupations Manpower,Manpower, Health,Manpower, Health Occupations,Workforce, Health
D006291	Health Policy	Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.	Health Care Policies,Health Policies,Healthcare Policy,National Health Policy,Care Policies, Health,Health Care Policy,Health Policy, National,Healthcare Policies,National Health Policies,Policies, Health,Policies, Health Care,Policies, Healthcare,Policy, Health,Policy, Health Care,Policy, Healthcare
D006301	Health Services Needs and Demand	Health services required by a population or community as well as the health services that the population or community is able and willing to pay for.	Health Services Needs,Needs,Needs and Demand, Health Services,Target Population,Health Services Need,Need, Health Services,Needs, Health Services,Population, Target,Populations, Target,Target Populations

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