IMGs are the future of U.S. primary care
The U.S. primary care system is unraveling. Fewer graduates are choosing it, and patients are struggling to find someone who stays. But in the background, one group continues to step up: international medical graduates (IMGs).
Quietly and steadily, they are filling the spaces others have left behind.
They are physicians who trained abroad, adapted to new systems, passed more hurdles than most of their U.S.-trained peers, and still chose to serve.
And yet, …