International medical graduates representation in pathology academic workforce, departmental leadership and society leadership.

ABSTRACT: Compared with the overall physician workforce, pathologist workforce in the United States has significant representation of international medical graduates (IMGs). IMG representation in the academic pathology workforce, as well as in departmental and pathology societal leadership, has not been documented. In this cross-sectional study, we surveyed a sample of 20 North American academic pathology departmental publicly available websites. Each faculty was recorded according to the location of their medical school training as either US or Canadian medical graduateor IMG (country of medical school graduation any other than US or Canada). Past and present presidents of four major North American pathology societies [American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Association for Academic Patholo

SUBMITTER: Azemi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11773459 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature