Skip to content
Doctors Without JobsDoctors Without Jobs
  • Menu
  • About
  • Posts
  • Stories
  • Share Your Story
  • Links
  • Get Involved
  • Donate

The Problem

There’s a reported doctor shortage

Yet we sideline doctors each year

In 2020, more than 2,000 current year and prior year graduates from U.S. medical schools did not match to residencies. Recent prior years show similar numbers.

In addition, there are thousands of U.S. citizen graduates who went to medical schools outside of the U.S. who don’t have residency positions.

At the same time U.S. doctors aren’t able to work, in the last 10 years, more than 36,000 citizens of other countries have been granted U.S. taxpayer-funded residencies.

Our position is that every U.S. citizen physician who graduated in good standing should be allowed to practice medicine if that remains the doctor’s choice – and certainly in a time of a doctor shortage!

Our Role

Doctors without Jobs explores why some U.S. citizen medical school graduates in good standing don’t match to residencies and seeks to build awareness of the issue. Areas of interest include how to increase the number of residency positions and how the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) policies could prioritize U.S. citizen medical students for residencies, along with how the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) could create policies to provide basic assistance to those who do not obtain residency training.

The mission of Doctors without Jobs is to encourage the adoption of policies that prioritize U.S. doctors for medical residencies.
test
© Doctors without Jobs 2021. All Rights Reserved.
  • About
  • Posts
  • Stories
  • Share Your Story
  • Links
  • Get Involved
  • Donate