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SUBMITTER: Ramesh T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11364145 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ramesh Tarun T Brotherton Sarah E SE Wozniak Gregory D GD Yu Hao H
Health affairs scholar 20240819 9
To address physician shortages in the United States, Congress created the Conrad 30 visa waiver program allowing non-citizen international medical graduates to obtain visas to practice medicine in underserved areas. There is little information on whether states have effectively used the program. To fill the gap, we examined the growth and distribution of Conrad physicians between 2001 and 2020. We found that the number of states filling all of their annual allocated Conrad slots increased over t ...[more]