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Our goal is to provide more immigration information for physicians, their employers and physician recruiters than any other web site on the Internet. Our law firm has helped over 2,000 international medical graduates (IMGs) and Canadian-trained physicians immigrate to the U.S. during the past two decades. We specialize in obtaining J visa waivers, H-1B status and permanent residence for physicians located across the U.S.
The numerous articles and links listed below demystify the J waiver procedure, the process of obtaining an appropriate offer of employment, how to determine whether your offer of employment is located within a medically underserved area, etc. We link to the government agencies that sponsor physicians for J waivers including almost all of the Conrad State 30 programs.
"I work with Merritt Hawkins & Associates, the largest physician search and consulting firm in the United States. For the past 20 years, we have relied on Mr. Shusterman and his law office to assist us in cases where we have recruited international physicians on behalf of our clients…we have found the results that Mr. Shusterman and his firm have achieved for us to be uniformly excellent.."
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U.S. Immigration for Physicians is divided into the following subtopics:
IMMIGRATION GUIDELINES FOR FOREIGN-BORN PHYSICIANS
International Medical Graduates Key to Solving the Physician Shortage by Carl Shusterman (10-08-09)
Revisions to Adjudicator’s Field Manual (AFM) Regarding Certain Alien Physicians (6-17-09)
A Legal Primer for International Medical Graduates and their Employers - ACP Hospitalist (October 2008)
Carl Shusterman's Testimony Before the Senate Advocating an Expansion of the Conrad Program For Physicians (5-22-01)
Immigration Knowledge Essential to Recruiting IMGs - New England Journal of Medicine (2000) by Carl
Shusterman
Physicians: Test Your Immigration IQ
SUCCESS STORIES
Helping a Physician Achieve Permanent Residence (April 2010)
A Hardship Waiver for a Physician (April 2006)
Repairing a Broken Immigration Case (March 2006)
Physician/Researcher: "Who is Extraordinary?" (February 2005)
Physician: Exceptional Hardship - Mexican Immigrant: Alternate Chargeability (October 2004)
Federation of State Medical Boards
United States Medical License Examination
National Board Of Medical Examiners
Medical Residency Program Requirements (AMA)
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Association of American Medical Colleges
Applying for a Medical Residency in the U.S.
Educational Commission on Foreign Medical Graduates
Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS)
Frieda Online: Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database
MD Link - Residency Application Links
National Resident Matching Program
When the Doctor Doesn't Look Like You - NY Times (August 13, 2010)
Doctor Shortage Looms as Primary Care Loses its Pull - USA Today (August 18, 2009)
No Relief: Shortage Keeps Older Docs on the Job - MSNBC (June 24, 2009)
Shortage of General Surgeons Endangers Rural Americans - Washington Post (January 1, 2009)
Weighing the Evidence for Expanding Physician Supply
Immigration: Foreign Physicians and the J-1 Waiver Program (June 17, 2004)
Staffing Crisis Calls for Revised Immigration Laws (July 29, 2002)
A Coming Shortage Of Foreign-Trained Doctors?
The Shrinking Pool Of International Medical Graduates
"Physicians: What Glut?" - by Senator Kent Conrad
American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI)
Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA)
International Medical Graduates Section (AMA)
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