Are we recruiting or poaching our primary care physicians?
For several years there has been a trend to fill more and more Family Medicine residency training positions with international medical graduates (IMG's.) While efforts are underway in Family Medicine and other primary care specialities to address the lack of interest of our own medical graduates in primary care, we must all look at this issue, this practice, and its ethical implications. The Annals of Family Medicine offers such consideration in an article and an editorial.
The Primary Care Physician Workforce: Ethical and Policy Implications