FW: The New York Times on Immigrant Doctors & the Road to Licensure

[Saenz, Carmen]

Dear Welcome Back Physicians Google Group  Members,  

 

I hope you are doing well!

 

I would like to share with you an article published by the New York Times  (NYT): Path to United States Practice Is Long Slog to Foreign Doctors on August 11, 2013.  The NYT mentions in the article  the Welcome Back Initiative (WBI), the umbrela organization at the national level where our Welcome Back Center of Suburban Maryland belongs. The article was published in the front page of  last Sunday Business section .  

Please see below a note from IMPRINT introducing this important article featured in the NYT regarding  foreign-trained doctors. The article highlights a few Welcome Back Center participants and ilustrates the various challenges immigrant doctors must face to become licensed in the United States.  

 

Here it is also the direct link to see the article on-line:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/business/economy/long-slog-for-foreign-doctors-to-practice-in-us.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 

Regards,  

Carmen I. Sáenz, MS
Manager, Suburban Maryland Welcome Back Center
Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
8630 Fenton Street, 10th Floor
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tel. 240 777 4796
Fax 240 777 3501

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Dear Friend of IMPRINT, The New York Times took a look at the challenges faced by immigrant doctors -- and IMPRINT Policy Chair Dr. José Ramón Fernández-Peña weighed in! We're delighted to see this important topic get national attention from the Times, and we hope you'll take a look at the excerpt below. Catherine Rampell The New York Times   The article, "Path to United States Practice Is Long Slog to Foreign Doctors," was written by economics reporter Catherine Rampell (pictured at right). It profiles a client of the Welcome Back Initiative, Dr. Alisson Sombredero. She is an HIV specialist who immigrated to the US from Colombia in 2005: Dr. Sombredero spent three years studying for her American license exams, gathering recommendation letters and volunteering at a hospital in an unpaid position. She supported herself during that time by working as a nanny.     That was followed by three years in a residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif., and one year in an H.I.V. fellowship at San Francisco General Hospital. She finally finished her training this summer, eight years after she arrived in the United States and 16 years after she first enrolled in medical school.   Dr. Sombredero was helped through the process by the Welcome Back Initiative, an organization started 12 years ago as a partnership between San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco. The organization has worked with about 4,600 physicians in its centers around the country, according to its founder, José Ramón Fernández-Peña.    Also interviewed in the article is a client of IMPRINT member Upwardly Global who is about to begin a fellowship at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic.  Read the full New York Times article.    Photo credit: The New York Times.

 

 

[Ivy Valen]

Thanks for sharing it Dr. Saenz

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[Lorena Larez]

Hola Carmen,

 

Mil gracias por compartir esta informacion.

 

Cariños sinceros,

Lorena Larez

[Saenz, Carmen]

You are welcome!

 

I hope that this article could be helpful to better understand the road to licensure for Foreign Medical Graduate in the US, to realize that many of the obstacles towards obtaining licensure could be a big challenges to overcome, but also to look with great hope that there are many alternative pathways to explore in the healthcare field that could become an appropriate option to consider for Foreign Medical Graduates.

 

Regards,

 

Carmen

 

Carmen I. Sáenz, MS
Manager, Suburban Maryland Welcome Back Center
Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
8630 Fenton Street, 10th Floor
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tel. 240 777 4796
Fax 240 777 3501

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[Saenz, Carmen]

Good Afternoon Welcome Back Physicians Google Group Members,

 

I would like to share with you some important news. Today at 3:30 PM CST/ 4:30 Pm EST, José Ramón Fernández-Peña, MD, MPA, Welcome Back Initiative (WBI) Director, will be on the WBEZ Chicago National Public Radio (NPR) station on the Afternoon Show with Niala Boodhoo. She's doing a follow up to the NYT article. Her mother is a foreign trained pharmacist so she's very interested in and familiar with the topic and she is also eager to hear about WBI’s work with IMPRINT.

 

Here's the link:

 

http://www.wbez.org/programs/afternoon-shift

Hope you have a chance to join.

 

Regards,

 

Carmen

 

Carmen I. Sáenz, MS
Manager, Suburban Maryland Welcome Back Center
Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
8630 Fenton Street, 10th Floor
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tel. 240 777 4796
Fax 240 777 3501

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