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Busharat Ahmad, MD

JAMA. 1998;279:906.

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The American Medical Association (AMA) took a big step forward last year in its efforts to better represent the interests of international medical graduates (IMGs) by forming an IMG Section. This new AMA section complements earlier sections, representing medical students, resident physicians, young physicians, medical school deans, and hospital and managed care medical staff. AMA members can join the IMG Section and still remain members of another section. I encourage all of the 25000 IMG residents in the United States to join our new section.

The formation of the IMG Section testifies to the commitment of the IMG community, within organized medicine, as well as to organized medicine's reciprocal commitment to IMGs. For over 8 years, the AMA has had an IMG Advisory Committee that served as a sounding board for the AMA Board of Trustees on issues of concern to IMG physicians. Two years ago, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Chair, AMA-IMG Section

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