West. M.D.. professor of continuing education. University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. has written: The immigration of foreign graduates now accounts for a substantial percentage (18 percent) of the annual additions to the U.S. medical profession. We would have to build and operate about 12 medical schools to produce the manpower being derived through immigration (approximately 1.200 per year). The dollar value of this "foreign aid" to the United States approximately equals the total cost of all of our medical aid. private and public. to foreign nations. The failure of the United States to train enough doctors to meet our own needs is graphically shown by the following table which not only highlights our increasing dependence upon foreign graduates but. worse. shows that even with the help of foreign graduates. we are not filling our internship and residency needs.
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