Medical groups trying to help IMGs overcome discrimination

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International medical graduates (IMGs) have often faced discrimination in admissions to internships and fellowships in the US. The American Medical Association (AMA) has helped pass a law prohibiting discrimination against IMGs, and there is an effort to increase their membership in the AMA and local medical societies. Because IMGs are frequently primary care physicians, they stand to gain from any health care reform, because wider access to health care will create a demand for more primary care physicians.

Social aspects, Physicians, Foreign

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Still linked to 'motherland' India, IMGs flex muscles here

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The American Association of Physicians from India (AAPI) helps graduates of foreign medical colleges, many of them Indians, to become accustomed to life in the United States. The organization also sends money to India to help finance free medical care. AAPI Pres Apparao Mukkamala hopes to found an exchange program for medical students. The organizations' objectives include defending Indian students or physicians who suffer from discrimination.

United States, Associations, Indians in the United States, Indians (Asian people), physicians, foreign

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Here's a new way for physicians to fight smoking

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Physicians should lend their support for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s efforts to regulate smoking by documenting cases of their smoking patients that contract diseases. Physicians can keep track of those patients that began smoking before the age of 18 and children who have been adversely affected by secondhand smoke on MedWatch, the FDA's medical monitoring system. MedWatch reports are preprinted and easy to fill out.

Administration of Public Health Programs, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Health Research Programs, Health aspects, Physicians, Medical professions, Social policy, Medical research, Smoking, Records and correspondence, United States. Food and Drug Administration

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