The National Resident Matching Program data reveals that from 2011 to 2018, 8,218 U.S. seniors did not matriculate into residency training. During that same period, 27,866 foreign-trained physicians, non-U.S. international medical graduates (IMGs) on H-1B and J-1 visas were selected for residencies. Although an impressive 94 percent of U.S. citizen medical graduates do match, the six percent that don’t translates to hundreds of individuals who have many years and hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in their extended medical education, but can’t find a job.
If you are a hospital, why pay an American born and trained physician $200K plus a year when a FMG will often work for one half of that amount? /sarcasm