A significant proportion continually fail licensure exams while continuing to staff our health institutions to the detriment of quality patient health care. It should be noted that foreign medical graduates have a 600percent greater failure rate on State medical licensure examinations as compared to U.S. medical graduates. The pervasive nature of the problem of noncitizen foreign medical graduates. to which this amendment responds. is set forth in great detail at pages 93 through 111 of the report and the hearings have documented the existence of a medical underground of foreign medical graduates who are practicing medicine today and who have not completed their State licensing examinations. Also. the testimony documents that these foreign medical graduates are now practicing in State institutions. county hospitals. general hospitals. and city hospitals. They frequently cover emergency rooms. perform general practice functions. deliver babies. et cetera.
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