(AFP) The number of foreign medical graduates from Muslim-majority countries coming to the United States to become doctors has declined by 15 percent under the Trump administration, exacerbating shortages in America’s physician workforce, a study said Monday.
International medical graduates represent about a quarter of practicing doctors in the United States.
They are required to take several licensing exams and then complete two or three years of training to practice medicine in the United States.
Overall, citizens from Muslim-majority nations made up 4.5 percent of the US physician workforce in 2019, with Pakistan, Egypt and Iran historically providing the bulk.
