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Volume 333:1781-1782 December 28, 1995 Number 26
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The Oversupply of Specialists and Graduates of Foreign Medical Schools

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by Whitcomb, M. E.
To the Editor: Whitcomb (Aug. 17 issue)1 proposes correcting the oversupply of specialists by limiting residencies for graduates of foreign medical schools. The health system in the United States exists not to ensure employment for physicians but to provide medical care. It follows that residency programs should accept the best applicants for available positions in order to supply the public with the best physicians possible. To select the best applicants, all qualified graduates should be permitted to apply. If the result is the displacement of graduates of U.S. medical schools from residency positions, the correct response would be to train . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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