Trump Immigration Policies Flare Concerns for Residency Programs

Hundreds of international doctors due to start medical residencies are in visa limbo

A week before they are due to start work at U.S. hospitals, hundreds of doctors from abroad are still waiting to obtain visas granting them temporary stays in the country

Trump Immigration Policies Flare Concerns for Residency Programs

(MedPage Today) -- With medical residencies set to start on July 1, program directors are concerned about their trainees from outside the U.S. The internal medicine residency program at a rural academic medical center in upstate New York where...

Hundreds of international doctors due to start medical residencies are in visa limbo – Mnnofa

A week before they are due to start work at U.S. hospitals, hundreds of doctors from abroad are still waiting to obtain visas granting them temporary stays in the country. Many of them have been in limbo since late May, when the State Department suspended applications for J-1 visas, which allow people to come to the U.S. for exchange visitor programs. The visas are the most common way for international doctors to attend residencies in the U.S., …