Last March, 6,653 foreign citizens, trained in foreign medical schools, fit into internships in US hospitals, according to NRMP data.
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Hasiba Karimi had to see patients in a Harrisburg hospital, Pennsylvania in just a few weeks. He is one of the 144 graduates of the International Medical School born abroad, who were scheduled to begin their first year of stay (known as a practice) in Pennsylvania this year and are part of a solution for the critical shortage of doctors in the United States.
But it won’t be a stateide anytime soon. This is due to the fact that Karimi, who lives in Canada and received her medical training in Turkey, was born in Afghanistan. It was scheduled for a H-1B Visa appointment on June 9, on the same day, the executive mandate of President Donald Trump banning people from 19 specific countries from entering the United States. While the order describes some exceptions – including diplomatic visas. Athletes, coaches and relatives traveling for competitions. And for ethnic and religious minorities “facing persecution in Iran” – no exception to doctors. So now Karimi, who spent years of building her experience and continued to win this internship, can only wait and hope.
“One in four pediatric residents in the US are graduates of the International Medical School and fill these points in the most inadequate communities that American graduates do not yet apply,” says Sebastian Arruarana, a resident of Brookdale and Brookdale University Hospital. “If this is not solved, who will take care of our children?”
Every summer thousands of doctors born foreigners who have graduated from international medical schools come to the US for residence programs. Last March, 6,653 foreign citizens trained in foreign medical schools, corresponded to internships in US hospitals, according to data from the National Housing match program (NRMP). Another 300 later corresponded to internships that went unhindered to the March race. Before foreign graduates can practice medicine in the United States, they must complete a US residence, making these programs critical for the necessary offer of foreign doctors.
The ban on people from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Ecuador Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, with some restrictions on the entry of Tournistan and Venezia, a cessation of planning new apps for J-1 visas, which most doctors-trainees use to come to the United States. (This pause aimed to give the Foreign Ministry to develop a policy for examining the social means of the applicants.)
It is so far unclear how many residents will be affected by the country’s specific bans. “We have identified a small number of IMG reporting a residence or relationship with one of the 13 countries that were found as part of the ban on travel, but even some of these people could already be in the United States, making it difficult to achieve whether they could enter their residence,” Residents from targeted countries already in the United States will be able to stay, but they may not be able to leave and return. Houses last between three and seven years, depending on medical specialty.
“My visa has been approved, but it is still being processed and has not yet been issued,” a Yemeni doctor in Saudi Arabia in Arruarana said. ‘The ban has just happened – I really don’t [want to lose] My dream. I am the first in my family to become a doctor and I was able to study Medicine in a scholarship in Saudi Arabia. ”
Among the doctors awaiting a visa appointment is Artur Polechshuk, who was born in Kazakhstan and studied Pediatric Medicine at St. Petersburg Pediatric Medical University in Russia. He and his fiancé had corresponded to both of the accommodation programs in West Virginia and none of them could do so for the start date of June 24th. ‘Of nine doctors in the first year’s positions [at the hospital]Only two are medical doctors born in the US. The other seven are graduates of the International Medical School, “says Polechshuk.” And half of us cannot come to the country because we are blocked. “
Suraj Kunhi Pureyil has already spent time in US hospitals. He was born and now lived in India, completed the Medical School in the Caribbean and completed the third and fourth year of clinical staff at a hospital in Michigan. It is supposed to start a home in an Ohio hospital on July 1st, but his J-1 vision was rejected because the immigration officers took over Kunhi Pureyil who intended to migrate to the US, he said he was not sure why they were in the US. to migrate with its application. “They mostly wanted to learn why we traveled to the US … So I explained to them it’s part of my curriculum, where I have to go to do 74 weeks of clinical secretary in the US,” says Kunhi Pureyil. “I think this might not have been a satisfactory answer.” (Many of the Caribbean Medical School students are American citizens who could not hit one of the limited points in the US Medical Schools and employees in US hospitals is one of their points of sale.)
The NRMP calls on residence programs to extend the start dates or to postpone salaries for foreign graduates who cannot obtain visas in the following academic year. The NRMP and the Educational Committee for External Medical Graduates, who support the visas for international medical graduates, are urging the Foreign Ministry to give exceptions to the ban on doctors. The Foreign Ministry did not respond to Forbes’ request for a comment as to whether doctors are excluded.
The hospital has argued, Polechshuk says of his program. “We were told that they will be waiting for us as much as possible and that they stay with us and are really shocked. It’s very difficult for them too.”
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