Download or read book U S Citizens Attending Foreign Medical Schools written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Citizens Attending Foreign Medical Schools

Download or read book Policies on U S Citizens Studying Medicine Abroad Need Review and Reappraisal written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federal State and Private Activities Pertaining to U S Graduates of Foreign Medical Schools written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oversight GAO Report on U S Foreign Medical Graduates written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Education written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Download or read book Foreign Medical Schools written by George A. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, the federal government makes a significant financial investment in the education and training of the U.S. physician workforce. A quarter of that physician workforce is composed of international medical graduates (IMG) and they include both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals. Little is known about IMGs with respect to how much they borrow overall, or the outcome of their medical studies, leading some policy makers to question the federal return on investment in IMGs. Therefore, Congress mandated that GAO study the performance of IMGs educated at these schools and other aspects of a foreign medical education, including the potential effect of the new 75 percent pass rate requirement on school participation in the federal loan. This report examines the following questions: (1) What amount of federal student aid loan dollars has been awarded to U.S. students attending foreign medical schools? (2) What do the data show about the pass rates of international medical graduates on license examinations? (3) To what extent does Education monitor foreign medical schools' compliance with the pass rate required to participate in the federal student loan program? (4) What is known about schools' performance with regard to the institutional pass rate requirement? (5) What is known about where international medical graduates have obtained residencies in the United States and the types of medicine they practice? (6) What is known about discipline and malpractice involving foreign educated physicians? In summary, the GAO found the following: (1) From 1998 to 2008, U.S. students enrolled at foreign medical schools borrowed $1.5 billion in FFEL loans to attend free-standing medical schools. Although this amount represents less than 1 percent of all federal student loans borrowed during this period, borrowing has grown significantly, in part because of increases in tuition, student enrollments, and the availability of additional loan funds for graduate and professional students. (2) IMGs, as a group, have consistently passed their medical licensing exam at lower rates over the past decade than their U.S.-educated peers, but have narrowed this performance gap for most of the exam steps. (3) Education has not been able to fully enforce the institutional pass rate requirement needed for continued federal student loan eligibility. The three private organizations that administer each step of the exam have declined to release student scores on grounds that the data are proprietary in nature and should not be used for marketing purposes. As a result, Education reviews pass rates only when a school applies for the program, when it periodically seeks recertification, or when there is a change in ownership. (4) A GAO analysis of 2008 pass rate data of institutions located in countries that participate in the federal loan program indicates that while a majority of foreign medical schools in these countries met the current 60 percent student pass rate requirement, very few--11 percent--would likely meet the newly required 75 percent pass rate. (5) IMGs have entered into residency programs in all states, though they are concentrated in the eastern United States, and a larger proportion tend to practice in primary care than do U.S.-educated graduates. Nationwide, in academic year 2008-2009 there were 109,482 medical residents, over 30,000 of whom were IMGs (about 27 percent). Overall, few significant differences exist between all IMGs and U.S.-educated physicians with regard to either disciplinary actions that would revoke or suspend their licenses or with regard to malpractice payments--and rates of disciplinary actions are low for physicians as a whole. Appended are: (1) Briefing Slides; (2) Objectives, Scope, and Methodology; (3) Comparison of Average Cost of Attendance at U.S. and Selected Foreign Medical Schools; (4) Performance on Licensing Exam by Number of Attempts on Each Exam Step, and by Nationality of IMG; (5) International Medical Graduates and Residencies; (6) Summary of Responses by Focus Group Participants at the Five Foreign Medical Schools We Visited; (7) Comments from the U.S. Department of Education; and (8) GAO Contact and Staff Acknowledgments. (Contains 3 tables, 4 figures, 14 footnotes, and a bibliography.).

Download or read book Foreign Medical Schools written by George A. Scott and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fraudulent Medical Degrees written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Oversight GAO Report on U S Foreign Medical Graduates written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Fraudulent Credentials written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advances in Medical Education written by A.J.J.A. Scherpbier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 550 registrants from 51 different countries attended the Seventh Ottawa Conference on Medical Education and Assessment in Maastricht. We received 525 abstracts for the conference, divided in thematic poster sessions and platform presentations. Organising the conference was an honour and we tried to meet the high standards of a friendly and relaxed atmosphere which has characterized previous Ottawa conferences. During and after the conference about 250 papers were submitted for publication in the conference proceedings, leaving us little time for a post-conference depression. Despite the large number of papers, the editors have attempted to review and edit the papers as care fully as possible. Occasionally, however, correspondence exceeded reasonable deadlines, preventing careful editing of a small number of the papers. Although we felt that our editorial task was not quite finished, we nevertheless decided to include these papers. We thank the many authors for their enthusiastic and prompt response to - occasionally tedious - editorial suggestions and requests. We are sure that this collective effort has resulted in a book that will make an important contribution to the field of medical education. The editors want to thank Jocelyn Flippo-Berger whose expertise with desk top publishing and perseverance was a great help.

Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Foreign Medical Schools for U S Citizens written by Carlos Pestana and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book GAO Documents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.

Download or read book Report to Congress on Physician Exchange Visitor Programs written by United States. Health Resources and Services Administration. Division of Medicine and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: