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The need of community health centers for international medical graduates
L D Baer1, T R Konrad, J S Miller
1Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7590, USA. lenny_baer@unc.edu
Objectives:
This study sought to determine whether community health centers need international medical graduates to fill staff positions.
Methods:
The authors surveyed 100 community health center administrators to learn about their perceptions of international medical graduates.
Results:
Nationally, about one quarter of community health centers depend on international medical graduates to fill physician vacancies; most of these centers foresee unfilled positions in the event of a cutback.
Conclusions:
Policies calling for a national reduction in the supply of international medical graduates need to be balanced by an understanding of these individuals' role in reducing local physician shortages.
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