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Monday, October 14, 2013
2013 Texas Legislature Protects Texas Medical Schools
Medical schools in the Caribbean often need clinical clerkship positions in the US for their students and are willing to pay for them. According to an article in the October 2013 issue of Texas Medicine (Texas first: Legislature preserves training spots for Texans, pages 49-53), our 2013 legislature “… passed legislation barring foreign medical schools from buying up core clinical training spots at Texas teaching hospitals and institutions.” During 2013, 94% of US allopathic MS4s matched for residency, while only about 50% of US citizens attending international medical schools were able to do so.