Becker's Healthcare August 27, 2024
Currently, one in five physicians in the U.S. is an immigrant, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association. In some specialties, like geriatrics and nephrology, the share of physician immigrants reaches 50%.
The ongoing staffing shortages across U.S.healthcare have led some to call for more open immigration policies that would allow foreign physicians to join the workforce. Yet immigration policies have not adapted to account for American dependence on foreign-born physicians in the workforce, said Kathleen Campbell Walker, immigration practice group chair at Dickinson Wright, a Chicago-based law firm, in an Aug. 26 article in Healthexec.com. Ms. Walker is also general counsel of the AILA.
“In light of figures that make it imperative that we do something to...
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