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- Doctors without Jobs Has Its Day In Front of U.S. Congress
KEVIN LYNN TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS “In recent years, thousands of American medical doctors – U.S. physicians – have been denied the right to practice medicine” – Kevin Lynn Cofounder, Doctors without Jobs Founder’s Corner Dear All: Last Tuesday, I had the distinct privilege of testifying before the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship in a hearing titled, “Is There a ... - DwJ’s Kevin Lynn Provides Testimony to Congress
Kevin Lynn, cofounder of Doctors without Jobs, provided testimony to the House Committee on the Judiciary on the topic, “Is There a Doctor in the House? The Role of Immigrant Physicians in the U.S. Healthcare System.” A link to the hearing and the transcript of Lynn’s testimony are below. LINK TO HEARING TESTIMONY OF KEVIN LYNN, Doctors without ... - Biden Administration Deaf to Its Harms to American Workers
Founder’s Corner Dear All: Edmund Burke, the 18th century Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher said “laws, like houses, lean on one another.” It’s a particularly apt description of the multiple laws that govern our immigration system and which were passed to ensure the health, safety, and prosperity of every American. Sadly, events over the past two weeks ... - Proposed Solutions to the Unmatched Doctors Crisis
For too long, too many American medical school graduates have been sidelined in their careers. Students first enter a highly competitive process to be accepted into medical school. Then they commit years to studying to become doctors. Most students also take out significant student loan debt – $250,000 on average – for their education. After ... - Kaiser Attacks Groups Ensuring U.S. Doctors Can Practice Medicine
Two small groups working on behalf of U.S. doctors recently were attacked by the Kaiser Family Foundation. KFF describes itself as a nonprofit organization that “focuses on major health issues facing the nation.” The organizations KFF attacked are advocates for physicians who do not have medical residencies at teaching hospitals, which means these doctors can’t be ... - Unmatched Citizen Doctors Question Fairness of Matching Process
Every year, thousands of medical school graduates conclude their academic careers with virtually useless MD degrees. In the process, they have incurred huge debt, often reaching into moderate six-figure totals. - U.S.-Educated Doctors Denied Jobs
Because of systemic failure among these organizations and institutions – and perhaps complacency in continuing business as usual – 6,570 doctors did not match to a residency last year. - AMA – Ensure U.S. Doctors Can Practice Medicine
PRESS RELEASE Continuing High Unemployment Should Keep us Focused on Jobs for Americans, Including our Doctors 29 January 2021 (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Doctors without Jobs, a group which works to encourage the adoption of policies that prioritize U.S. doctors for medical residencies, announced the release of a broadcast spot asking why the Association of American Medical ... - Hire American Doctors
Paid for by Doctors without Jobs August unemployment came in at 8.4 percent, so while it’s come down from the height of pandemic unemployment, the nation continues to struggle with COVID-19 and a crisis of widespread social unrest. In such instability, every effort should be made to create and keep jobs for Americans across all professions ... - High Unemployment Shifts Focus to Jobs for U.S. Doctors
July unemployment came in at 10.2 percent last month, still above the 10 percent high in the 2007-2009 recession. Now more than ever, post-pandemic and social unrest, every effort should be made to create and keep jobs for Americans across all professions to ensure that our country rights itself. That includes ... - American Doctors in Good Standing Should be Working
For years, the Association of American Medical Colleges has predicted the United States will face a large physician shortage, and the coronavirus pandemic may further exacerbate this shortage. However, there are thousands of qualified U.S. doctors who are unable to practice. Every year, about 1,000 U.S. citizens graduate medical schools in the U.S., but don’t move ... - Congress Wants More Tech, Health Care Green Cards
No matter how beaten down American workers are or how dim their employment prospects, the White House and Congress continue their relentless insistence on importing hundreds of thousands more foreign-born workers. At the same time, legal immigration remains mostly unchanged, and annually adds more than one million life-time work authorized immigrants to the labor pool. The ... - Congress Sidelines U.S. Doctors, Champions International Doctors
Congress, immigration advocacy groups and immigration lawyers are urging the Trump administration to increase the number of foreign-born doctors to alleviate the alleged medical responders’ shortage during the coronavirus pandemic. Minnesota Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, along with colleagues in the House and Senate, wrote to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services requesting that ... - Congress Sidelines U.S. Doctors, Advances International Doctors
Congress, immigration advocacy groups and immigration lawyers are urging the Trump administration to increase the number of foreign-born doctors to alleviate the alleged medical responders’ shortage during the coronavirus pandemic. Minnesota Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, along with colleagues in the House and Senate, wrote to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services requesting that ... - Call to Activate Unmatched Doctors
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 31, 2020 Doctors without Jobs Calls for Activation of Unmatched Physicians in Coronavirus Pandemic Statement from Kevin Lynn, Founder, Doctors without Jobs All unmatched U.S. doctors who graduated from U.S. medical schools in good standing should be given the opportunity to serve in communities throughout the country where they are most needed in this pandemic This month, ... - Why U.S. Doctors Don’t Have Jobs in a Shortage
Kevin Lynn, the founder of Doctors without Jobs, talks with Rick Fowler of the Saturday Morning Update in Washington, D.C., about building awareness for Doctors without Jobs. - National Resident Matching Program Fails Many Doctors
The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization created in 1952 to place American medical school students into U.S. teaching hospitals’ residency training programs, which are mostly taxpayer subsidized through Medicare funds. Since its founding, NRMP has expanded its mission to place qualified non-U.S. citizen international medical student graduates (IMGs) into residency ... - The National Resident Matching Program No Longer Meets Doctor Needs
The National Resident Matching Program No Longer Meets Doctor Needs American Med School Students Graduate without Jobs even in Period of Physician Shortage - Prioritizing Hiring American Doctors Should be the Standard
Outsourcing U.S. jobs to foreign markets followed by replacing local workers with foreign laborers has been the reality of the U.S. labor market for almost two decades. Manufacturing was the start of outsourcing, and then employers moved on to back-room corporate operations such as credit card processing and call centers for customer service. This was followed ... - AMA Wants Foreign Doctors, Not Qualified Americans
Last month, the American Medical Association issued a press release that urged U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to process more H-1B visas, thereby allowing more nonresident physicians to come to the United States to practice medicine. The AMA claimed that a shortage of nonresident physicians who help fill care gaps in medically underserved regions diminishes overall ...
