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US Medical Graduates versus Foreign Medical Graduates



The main question is if there is performance difference in practice between medical graduates educated in the US versus graduates educated in foreign medical schools.

A 1977 study by Rhee and published in the journal Medical Care revealed that there is no evidence that all categories of U.S. medical graduates provided a higher quality care and better utilization than all categories of foregin medical graduates. And "the mean differences between the categories of medical schools were not statistically significant (except for the quality when specialists practiced within their own areas of specialization)."

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