foreign medical graduate


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foreign medical graduate (FMG)

a physician trained in and graduated from a medical school outside the United States and Canada. U.S. citizens graduated from medical schools outside the United States and Canada are also classified as FMGs.
A physician who graduated from a medical school outside of the US, Canada or Puerto Rico

foreign medical graduate

A physician who graduated from a medical school outside of the US, Canada or Puerto Rico. See International medical granduate, USFMG.
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FMG wrote a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar and demanded to take notice of what they called the non-serious behaviour of PMDC for conducting the examination, discrimination against foreign medical graduates and allowing quacks to practice while denying such opportunity to foreign qualified degree holders.
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Summary of Publication Misrepresentation, US Graduates Versus Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs) US Graduates FMGs Total applications 117 587 Excluded applications, 4 0 current trainees Applications reporting 25 294 publications Excluded applications, 1 85 nonverifiable publications Total applications 24 209 included in study Type of misrepresentation Omission of other authors 2 27 Nonauthorship 1 5 Self-promotion on author list 0 5 Non-peer-reviewed source 0 1 Nonexistent article 0 1 Total No.
Prevalence and types of misrepresentation of publication record by pathology residency applicants
15) And of course, primary care can be more economically provided by foreign medical graduates than by those from the United States, and still more cheaply provided by nurses, physician assistants, and other allied health professionals whose education is substantially less costly.
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