- 25 Mar 2023 20:15
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Interesting article on how we're not prioritizing medical residencies for American doctors, leaving thousands of them unable to practice medicine.
There Are Limited Spots for Doctors in Medical Schools—and We're Giving Them Away to Foreigners | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/there-are-limi ... on-1789324
There's only one profession in which students who graduate from an advanced learning program and who pass all the required exams are barred from employment due to bureaucratic red tape and predatory immigration policies. That profession is medical doctor.
Under the current system, in order to practice medicine, a medical school graduate must match to a residency position at a U.S. teaching hospital. If they don't match and complete their residency, they cannot practice medicine.
Decades ago, earning an MD degree practically guaranteed one could practice medicine. That's less and less the case, as nearly 5,000 doctors heard last week from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) that they went unmatched. That number includes 2,364 doctors graduating from U.S. medical schools in 2023 or earlier and 2,590 U.S. citizens graduating from international medical schools in 2023 or earlier.
It's not just medicine.
International students account for 81% of the full-time graduate students at U.S. universities in electrical engineering and 79% in computer science, per the report. That could be a contributing factor to the high number of H-1Bs used by U.S. tech companies. This according to according to a study by the National Foundation for American Policy using fresh data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Why would a tech company want high skilled immigrants rather than trying to hire high skilled Americans?
Because the company knows it can pay someone from India or China much less, and the company can work them harder too and they won't complain.
The company has much more leverage over them, because these foreign workers know if they are fired they will be required to go back to their own country, and the best jobs they can get won't even pay half as much.
Even Scientists Can't Find Jobs In America Today - Insider, Gus Lubin, July 8, 2012
https://www.businessinsider.com/even-sc ... day-2012-7
Lou Dobbs on Post Docs and PhDs being paid peanuts and exploited through H-1B visas
link to YouTube video
Science, Math, Engineering grads can't find jobs - "Stem Grads are at a Loss", U.S. News, Hal Salzman, September 15, 2014
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles ... -find-jobs
There Are Limited Spots for Doctors in Medical Schools—and We're Giving Them Away to Foreigners | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/there-are-limi ... on-1789324
There's only one profession in which students who graduate from an advanced learning program and who pass all the required exams are barred from employment due to bureaucratic red tape and predatory immigration policies. That profession is medical doctor.
Under the current system, in order to practice medicine, a medical school graduate must match to a residency position at a U.S. teaching hospital. If they don't match and complete their residency, they cannot practice medicine.
Decades ago, earning an MD degree practically guaranteed one could practice medicine. That's less and less the case, as nearly 5,000 doctors heard last week from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) that they went unmatched. That number includes 2,364 doctors graduating from U.S. medical schools in 2023 or earlier and 2,590 U.S. citizens graduating from international medical schools in 2023 or earlier.
It's not just medicine.
International students account for 81% of the full-time graduate students at U.S. universities in electrical engineering and 79% in computer science, per the report. That could be a contributing factor to the high number of H-1Bs used by U.S. tech companies. This according to according to a study by the National Foundation for American Policy using fresh data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Why would a tech company want high skilled immigrants rather than trying to hire high skilled Americans?
Because the company knows it can pay someone from India or China much less, and the company can work them harder too and they won't complain.
The company has much more leverage over them, because these foreign workers know if they are fired they will be required to go back to their own country, and the best jobs they can get won't even pay half as much.
Even Scientists Can't Find Jobs In America Today - Insider, Gus Lubin, July 8, 2012
https://www.businessinsider.com/even-sc ... day-2012-7
Lou Dobbs on Post Docs and PhDs being paid peanuts and exploited through H-1B visas
link to YouTube video
Science, Math, Engineering grads can't find jobs - "Stem Grads are at a Loss", U.S. News, Hal Salzman, September 15, 2014
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles ... -find-jobs