[neverevergiveup]

This sounds like an attempt to make it faster and easier for foreign medical graduates to work in the US. The policy has been that if you want to work in the US, and have a foreign medical degree, you have to pass the exams and also do a complete residency (e.g. 3 years for internal medicine or pediatrics). This ensures that those allowed to work here have the necessary experience to not be dangerous.

Most often the foreign medical graduates do their residency at non-university based residency programs that are a lot easier to be accepted at. This Missouri program lets them skip residency training, and makes it easier for them to flood American medicine with foreign medical graduates. These are not people graduating from highly-rated schools in the UK, or Germany etc. This is a big mistake, and by specifically linking lower standards with working in ‘underserved’ areas, it pushes lower-quality medical care specifically on these communities (including rural settings).

[BlueStateRightist]

Correct. This is about slotting FMGs into the medical workforce.

[Truth29]

How many of them will be Muslim “doctors” I wonder?