Strange, isn't it? Our American schools are so bogged down with med student applications that they only accept the top students from pre-med programs. Yet when you go to a hospital, it seems (depending on where you live) that 30% of the Dr's are foreign. The US schools are preventing US students from becoming Drs, so there's enough room in the system for foreign docs. Makes NO sense. If THAT many foreigners can get jobs as drs, we're not letting enough of our own students get into Med schools.
Our American schools are so bogged down with med student applications that they only accept the top students from pre-med programs. Yet when you go to a hospital, it seems (depending on where you live) that 30% of the Dr's are foreign. The US schools are preventing US students from becoming Drs, so there's enough room in the system for foreign docs. Makes NO sense. If THAT many foreigners can get jobs as drs, we're not letting enough of our own students get into Med schools. There are plenty of US docs, just not in the ERs and clinics.
The top undergraduate students have however gone into other fields (business, law), so that now 50% of the med school classes are women, up from 5% 25 years ago. Women who (wisely in my view) simply don't work as hard, take vacations, don't do 70 hour weeks, drop out to have kids, etc.
The new docs graduating are simply not as intelligent as the graduates of 25 years ago, in my experience. It is hard to imagine how bad American graduates of these Mexican and other third world hell-hole medical schools must be.