{"id":205,"date":"2015-06-05T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faimer.org\/news\/?p=205"},"modified":"2016-11-17T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:13:35","slug":"faimer-research-scientist-marta-van-zanten-coauthors-nejm-perspective-u-s-citizen-international-medical-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faimer.org\/news\/2015\/06\/faimer-research-scientist-marta-van-zanten-coauthors-nejm-perspective-u-s-citizen-international-medical-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIMER Research Scientist Marta van Zanten Coauthors <em>NEJM Perspective<\/em> on U.S.-Citizen International Medical Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAIMER Research Scientist Marta van Zanten, Ph.D., and N. Lynn Eckhert, M.D., Dr.P.H., of Partners HealthCare International, recently coauthored a <em>Perspective<\/em> piece for the <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>, titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25923548\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.-Citizen International Medical Graduates\u2014A Boon for the Workforce?<\/a>\u201d Nearly 14% of applicants for residency positions in the United States are U.S.-citizen graduates of international medical schools (USIMGs), who are more likely to enter primary care fields compared to graduates of U.S. medical schools. The large majority of USIMGs graduated from medical schools located in the Caribbean region. In this <em>Perspective<\/em>, the authors describe data available on these international medical schools, and outline some of the issues related to Caribbean USIMGs and their contribution to the U.S. physician workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Perspective<\/em> appeared in the April 30, 2015 issue (Vol. 372 No. 18) of the <em>NEJM<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIMER Research Scientist Marta van Zanten, Ph.D., and N. Lynn Eckhert, M.D., Dr.P.H., of Partners HealthCare International, recently coauthored a Perspective piece for the New England Journal of Medicine, titled \u201cU.S.-Citizen International Medical Graduates\u2014A Boon for the Workforce?\u201d Nearly 14% of applicants for residency positions in the United States are U.S.-citizen graduates of international medical &#8230;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faimer.org\/news\/2015\/06\/faimer-research-scientist-marta-van-zanten-coauthors-nejm-perspective-u-s-citizen-international-medical-graduates\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">read more<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,134],"tags":[62,63],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faimer-staff","category-research","tag-marta-van-zanten","tag-nejm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FAIMER Research Scientist Marta van Zanten Coauthors NEJM Perspective on U.S.-Citizen International Medical Graduates - FAIMER News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faimer.org\/news\/2015\/06\/faimer-research-scientist-marta-van-zanten-coauthors-nejm-perspective-u-s-citizen-international-medical-graduates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FAIMER Research Scientist Marta van Zanten Coauthors NEJM Perspective on U.S.-Citizen International Medical Graduates - FAIMER News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FAIMER Research Scientist Marta van Zanten, Ph.D., and N. 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