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like_any_other 50 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Proposed Rule: Eliminating the Discretionary 60-Da...

> AAMC reports 20% of doctors and med students are foreign born and educated

This is by design: https://www.newsweek.com/there-are-limited-spots-doctors-med...

(And 20% is barely above the overall US foreign born population, which is at 15%: https://www.statista.com/chart/8083/immigrants-foreign-born-...)

rinconrex 50 days ago [–]

Are the foreign students we let in better than the 20% of US students that are excluded? If they are much better, I guess I don't see the problem.

The better solution (for me) is to open up the slots since there is such a huge shortage of doctors. NPs and RNs are not going to make up that expertise gap.

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