Observership Program Listings for International Medical Graduates

Residency Program Requirements for International Medical Graduates

Immigration Information for International Medical Graduates

ECFMG-Certified IMGs: Join and take advantage of AMA benefits

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Leadership

Doctors will beat COVID-19. Let’s bring more of them to the fight.

The global pandemic is an all-hands-on-deck moment. Retired doctors, IMGs, and DACA recipients can play vital roles to help us stop the deadly coronavirus.

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Public Health

AMA: Fix immigration issues so IMGs can help fight COVID-19

To ensure an adequate physician workforce in the COVID-19 fight, non-U.S. citizen physicians need to stay and IMGs need to start residency training.

Press Releases

AMA: U.S. should open visas to international physicians amid COVID-19

Residents and fellow physicians are an important part of the health care teams serving on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis.

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International Medical Education

How IMGs have changed the face of American medicine

The AMA’s inaugural IMG Recognition Week kicks off with a look at the numbers that detail this vital part of the U.S. physician workforce.

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Specialty Profiles

Recruiter overload: How you compare with other medical residents

Final-year residents are bombarded by recruiter emails and phone calls, but not all types of residents are in the same boat on this front.

International Medical Education

Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates Certification

See how the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) assesses international medical graduates for entry into a U.S. residency or fellowship.

International Medical Education

Immigration information for international medical graduates

See the visa requirements for international medical graduates seeking entry into U.S. programs of graduate medical education, including the J-1 visa.

International Medical Education

Practicing medicine in the U.S. as an international medical graduate

Understand the 5 steps that physicians who received their medical degree outside the U.S. or Canada must clear to practice medicine in the United States.

ECFMG-Certified IMGs

Join today and take advantage of the full benefits of AMA membership.

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AMA Insurance

AMA member physicians get a 35% discount on own-specialty disability insurance premiums.

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