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MD licensing

>>What specific changes should be made to the MD licensing process in the US to facilitate the practice of medicine by doctors with foreign credentials?<< (Dew)

I don't have any particular medical expertise, but I don't think it should take 2 years or more to find out if a doctor from abroad is competent to practice medicine in this country. You can look at where this doctor got his(/her) degrees and where he did his residency. You can look at letters of recommendation. In iffy cases you can require that the doctor pass a written test, which concentrates on clinical practice rather than checking whether the candidate still remembers some of the irrelevant medical trivia memorized years ago in medical school. And you can require that the foreign doctor spend a few days in a hospital making rounds with a medical evaluator.

I think that's sufficient.

The academic types like pgs will appreciate that this shouldn't be any harder than hiring a good postdoc or faculty member. There are plenty of ways to find out if someone knows their stuff and is competent to work in the field in which they have been trained without requiring them to go back to school for a couple of years ...

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