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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rtk" data-source="post: 454601" data-attributes="member: 261">Bellkicker;Perhaps Danes are more PC than I, but I think you're missing my point.  I'm certainly not saying that foreign trained physicians are somehow inferior.  I agree that in a free market, may the most qualified applicant get the job.  I also don't see myself (or other US residents and fellows that I work with) as biased against international grads.  In fact, some of my close friendships are with my collegues from India, Pakistan, Jordan, Poland, etc...That said, however, US medical education is NOT a free market.  It's actually tax payer funded through entitlements programs (particularly Medicare).  The irony is, the US gov't continues to import foriegn trained physicians when there's a glut of physicians in the US and the US currently spends more money on health care than any other nation in the world.So, your comparison of an Engineer from India competing for a job in the US is significantly different from an IMG competing for a residency position (all of which are US taxpayer funded).  Each physician that enters the US workforce contributes to the cost (albeit slight) of providing health care in the US.  And, the only way an intn'l grad can enter the US physician workforce is through taxpayer funded training.Post graduate training in the US is a gov't policy issue that needs to be addressed.  I would venture to guess that the number of physicians in Denmark is significantly lower per capita than in the US.  I would also venure to guess that the health care expenditure per capita is significantly lower in Denmark than the US.As I stated earlier, my post was a segway from the original question.  However, it's an important issue, and I would go so far as to say that the US has been very generous in training international medical grads (likely more generous than any other country).  Generous to the point of potentially bankrupting the US economy through funding of entitlements programs (Title 13 and 19) which acount for >20% of US taxpayer dollars and growing every year.</blockquote>

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