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Board denies foreign-trained cardiac surgeon's request for waiver of three-year ACGME postgraduate requirement
Summary
The Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure executive committee denied Dr. Fatoke's request for an exemption to the board's three-year ACGME postgraduate training requirement, citing the absence of a legislative alternative pathway for foreign-trained physicians.
The Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure's executive committee denied a request by Dr. Fatoke, a cardiac surgeon trained in the United Kingdom and recently having completed a one-year fellowship at the Yale Aortic Institute, to waive the board's three-year ACGME postgraduate training requirement.
The committee considered Fatoke's application during a virtual meeting. He told members he completed a 12-month aortic fellowship at Yale New Haven Hospital from July 2024 to June 2025 and is practicing cardiac surgery in Nigeria. He said he had…
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