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Physician and MSMA delegate urges board to consider 'additional pathways' for international medical graduates
Summary
A guest speaker and international medical graduate urged the State Board to adopt an ‘additional pathways’ approach to licensure for qualified international medical graduates (IMGs), describing workforce data, draft task-force recommendations and a provisional-license pathway with monitoring.
Dr. Lee Walters, speaking as a past MSMA president and an international medical graduate, urged the State Board of Medical Licensure to consider creating an additional pathway for qualified international medical graduates to obtain provisional licensure and, after supervised practice, full licensure.
Walters told the board that about 25% of the physician workforce in the United States are international medical graduates and that the share is higher in some subspecialties and in rural or underserved areas. He described a joint task-force draft (as summarized to the board) involving national stakeholders that recommends a pathway in which qualified graduates from recognized foreign medical schools who complete…
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