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T. Madhavan, MD
Detroit

JAMA. 1975;231(8):809.

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To the Editor.—

I refer to the recent editorial by Dr. Hussey (230:590, 1974). As a foreign medical graduate (FMG) and a practicing, teaching internist in a hospital-based practice, I would like to bring the following few lines to the kind consideration of authors like Hussey and those he quotes.

None of these authors seems to recognize and appreciate the contributions of FMGs to the academic medicine in this country, especially in teaching, clinical investigation, and basic research. Many American graduates trained in high-ranking institutions did not undertake teaching jobs involving the training of future medical graduates because of the low financial rewards in those positions. Foreign medical graduates, on the other hand, are willing to continue their education and participate in research and in training future physicians both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This is well exemplified in institutions like Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, Northwestern, and Wayne . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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