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Before I begin, I want to apologize first. This topic isn't meant to offend anyone or degrade anyone's hardwork or experience.
I am curious and inexperienced. I have blue cross blue shield insurance, and I never thought about it until now as I get more and more involved in medical school (and the rigors of attending a US medical school) I am noticing stuff I haven't noticed before as I search for physicians to heal some of my chronic health problems before I start med school in 6 months. I was searching my in-network list of physicians on the website, and the usual, you get pages upon pages of physicians sorted by those closest to farthest from your location.
The biggest thing I've noticed is that nearly all of the primary care physicians for the first 3 pages, after which the distance is too far for me to get to by bike (which is currently my only method of transportation) (which is a list of 10 per page so 30 physicians total). Of the 30 physicians, only 3 of which were trained in the US. The remaining was trained internationally in mostly india, Hispanic countries, and china.
I want to understand:
1. Why are PCP's in Maryland (maybe someone can confirm if that's true elsewhere) 90% International.
2. Where are all the US train physicians if they aren't in primary care (Please correct me if I am making a wrong underlying assumption)
3. I understand that immigration is very difficult. I have friends I'm trying to help stay here. How do so many international physicians make it to the US?
Again, I apologize for my inexperience.
I am curious and inexperienced. I have blue cross blue shield insurance, and I never thought about it until now as I get more and more involved in medical school (and the rigors of attending a US medical school) I am noticing stuff I haven't noticed before as I search for physicians to heal some of my chronic health problems before I start med school in 6 months. I was searching my in-network list of physicians on the website, and the usual, you get pages upon pages of physicians sorted by those closest to farthest from your location.
The biggest thing I've noticed is that nearly all of the primary care physicians for the first 3 pages, after which the distance is too far for me to get to by bike (which is currently my only method of transportation) (which is a list of 10 per page so 30 physicians total). Of the 30 physicians, only 3 of which were trained in the US. The remaining was trained internationally in mostly india, Hispanic countries, and china.
I want to understand:
1. Why are PCP's in Maryland (maybe someone can confirm if that's true elsewhere) 90% International.
2. Where are all the US train physicians if they aren't in primary care (Please correct me if I am making a wrong underlying assumption)
3. I understand that immigration is very difficult. I have friends I'm trying to help stay here. How do so many international physicians make it to the US?
Again, I apologize for my inexperience.