Friday 20 May 2016

Foreign Medical Graduates.

   Nowadays, folks don't say 'foreign medical graduates', for some reason it is deemed to be politically incorrect.  I don't understand why, but then I don't understand why much of what is politically incorrect today is deemed to be so.  Foreign medical graduates have a new title nowadays, they are called 'international medical graduates' because foreign is somehow deemed to be demeaning.  Well, let me tell you something, being a foreign medical graduate (FMG) myself, I was rather proud of the title.  First of all, my medical school was producing doctors, scientists and educated graduates before Canada was a country.  Secondly, when I started practicing medicine in Canada in the early sixties, a huge proportion of the physicians and most of the medical culture came from Great Britain and Ireland, and to a lesser extent from other European centres of learning.  It was not until Abraham Flexner published his report in 1910 that both American and Canadian Universities developed modern medical curricula.  Before that much of the excellence in medical care flourished under the leadership of the foreign physicians.  
   So why is it that FMG became a less than flattering title that needed to be euphemized to 'international medical graduate'.  There are many excellent foreign medical graduates, there are also many who are mediocre or worse.  What does foreign actually mean?

Foreign:  located outside a particular place or country and especially outside your own country.
   
   In true Orwellian fashion, the social engineers try to conceal the fact that frequently the 'particular places or countries' have cultures and customs so different from our own, that what they have to offer patients is barely acceptable or even unacceptable.  Of course, the social engineers and administridiots are very favourably disposed to such FMG, because they depend on the largesse of the sponsoring bodies to have a licence to work and therefore have to do what they are told and go where they are told.  Their presence also makes it easier for the elected officials and their janissaries to manipulate and control the profession in ways that would be completely unacceptable.
   Meanwhile, there are Canadian graduates of Canadian universities who cannot obtain residency positions.  Let me repeat that.  There are graduates of Canadian medical schools who cannot get residency positions because of our governmental policies.  There are specialists who cannot get permanent positions, despite that fact that patients wait unconscionable times for urgent treatment.
   The decline continues and only the sick and suffering give a damn.

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