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‘Match Week’ Means the Next Steps for Physicians, Stalled Careers for Others

For basketball fans and players, the third month of the year means “March Madness,” one of the biggest sporting events. March for some college undergraduates means spring break in exotic locales. For thousands of this year’s medical school graduates, March means the exciting culmination of eight years of higher education

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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.

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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

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Rebuttal: Health Care Organization Kaiser Attacks Groups Working to Ensure U.S. Doctors Get Residency – So they 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,

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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.

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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.

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Doctors without Jobs Asks the Association of American Medical Colleges Why it Isn’t Doing More to 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

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Continuing High Unemployment Should Keep us Focused on Jobs for Americans, Including our 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

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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

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Congress Sidelines U.S. Physicians in Pandemic, 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

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Doctors without Jobs Calls for Activation of Unmatched Physicians in Coronavirus Pandemic

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

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Why Doctors in the U.S. Don’t Have Jobs in the Middle of a Shortage – Kevin Lynn Interview

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.

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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

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AMA Lobbies for More Foreign Doctors, but Qualified Americans Shut Out

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

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Prioritizing Hiring U.S. 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

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Cuban, Other International Doctors Come to the U.S. – More U.S. Doctors Not Allowed to Practice

I was catching up on reading a stack of newspapers that had piled up while pondering what to write for this week’s blog when the answer leapt out at me from the front page of the Sunday local Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper. Front and center was an article about more than