Study points to gap in US medical education

http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/08/08/study_points_to_gap_in_us_medical_education/

By Pat Wechsler
Bloomberg News / August 8, 2010

NEW YORK — Patients of doctors who went to medical school outside the country and weren’t American citizens had a 9 percent lower death rate on average than those whose doctors trained at home, a study showed.

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Not all international medical school graduates had good results.

US citizens who attended medical schools abroad underperformed graduates of US medical schools and citizens from other countries who went to school outside the United States. Internationally trained foreign doctors had a 16 percent lower mortality rate among their patients than Americans schooled overseas, according to the article.

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