1121 



As of December 31, 1970, there were 57,217 FMGs in the AMA's regis- 

 try of physicians in the United States, representing 17.1 percent of 

 the total physician population of 334,028. (See Tables 14 and 15.)=^°^ 

 There were another 6,174 graduates from Canadian medical schools, 

 bringing the grand total of FMGs, including Canada, to 63,391.202 

 (A very small percentage of FMGs — 5,972 in 1970 — were American- 

 born citizens who, being unable to gain admission to the highly com- 

 petitive American medical schools, apparently for the want of a suf- 

 ficient number of schools, went abroad for training and then returned 

 to the I'^nited States. However, this number is more than offset by 

 the estimated 10,000 or more FMGs in the United States not included 

 on the AM A registry.) 



The FMG population has grown steadily since the 1950's. According 

 to the AMA study, the total physician population has increased by 

 about 8,000 physicians per year since 1963 half of whom are FMGs.^*'^ 

 Between 1963 and 1970, the absolute number of FMGs in the United 

 States increased 85 percent. 2°* 



35' AMA, FMG study, 1971, p. 3. 



202 Ibid., p. 15. 



203 Ibid., p. 1. 

 2M Ibid., p. 3. 



TABLE 14.— FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES I N THE UNITED STATES BY COUNTRY OF GRADUATION AND COUNTRY 



OF BIRTH.i DEC. 31, 1970 



Couniry of graduation 



Total 



Country of birth 



U.S. born Not U.S. born 



Unknown 



Total 



Afghanistan _ 



Algeria 



Argentina 



Australia 



Austria 



Belgium 



Bolivia 



Brazil 



Bulgaria , 



Burma 



Ceylon ._ 



Chile.... 



China 



Columbia 



Congo (Kinshasa) 



Costa Rica 



Cuba 



Czechoslovakia 



Denmark 



Doftiinican Republic. 



East Germany _ 



Ecuador 



El Salvador 



Ethiopia 



Finland _ 



France 



Greece 



Guatemala 



Haiti 



Honduras 



Hong Kong _ 



Hungary 



Iceland 



India _ 



I ndonesia _ 



Iran... _ 



Iraq 



Ireland 



Israel 



See footnote at end of table. 



52,217 



5,972 



50, 927 



318 



