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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Many thanks for your informed replies in this thread. Learned a few (quite a few) things I didn't know.
Quite interested in your take on foreign applicants for local positions, especially as we have a niece in her second year of residency in Bangkok, Thailand, and who is looking to emigrate to America once her degree is finished. I heard that the local hospital is (or was) offering $10,000 for a referral of any applicant for the position of MD, if it would be his or her first position after fulfilling degree requirements and if that person is hired. She is looking at coming to Florida, specifically here.
Do you know anything about this?
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Sorry, not much. It used to be called the "fifth pathway", I don't know if that's changed. In general, I believe, even if a doctor completed a residency internationally, even if they were in practice for a while, they still had to repeat their residency in an accredited US hospital program. This may have changed. I'm sure if you niece is contemplating this action she will have more up to date and accurate information than I do.