Our request, Mr. President, is to call upon Congress to pass a legislation that would effectively increase the number of Medicare-funded GME residency slots. Those slots should also cover US citizen and Permanent Resident International Medical Graduates (IMGs) . A recommended number is 21,000, based on a peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). That would not only help solve the physician shortage we now face in our nation and benefit the fast growing patient population, it would also pave the way for many US IMGs who have been denied a contributing role in this country to start doing what they were trained to do: saving lives. At the same time, these US IMGs would be able to care for their family and live their lives with dignity. Thank you.
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