Urgent Issues Facing Immigrant Physicians in the United States in the COVID-19 Era.
editorial · Level V
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Abstract
Physicians who received their medical training outside the United States constitute a substantial proportion of the physician workforce in states with a high burden of COVID-19 cases and deaths. As described in this essay, immigrant physicians and their families also may be especially vulnerable because of several circumstances that relate to their visa status.
Medical subject headings
- Coronavirus Infections
- Emigrants and Immigrants
- Foreign Medical Graduates
- Physicians
- Pneumonia, Viral