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Fewer foreigners seek
edical training
CHICAGO (AP) — The
number of foreign medical
H:hool graduates seeking train
ing in the United States has
â– lummeted since the start of an
expensive new test that requires
them to demonstrate their
Knglish skills, a study found.
The number of foreign grad-
bates taking the exam, required
If applicants for residencies and
â– ellowships, dropped by more
than half between 1997 and
lo()l, from 36,231 to 16,828.
lesearchers found.
The decline coincided with a
Requirement instituted in 1998
|hat they pass a clinical skills
Assessment, during which they
nust communicate with fake
■'patients” in English and are
Scored on the staged encounters.
The study’s authors suggest
â– hat foreign students may be dis-
^ftuadcd by the prospect of hav
ing their English evaluated. The
Authors also cited the $1,200
:ost of the test and the expense
>f traveling to Philadelphia, the
Sole examination site.
Dr. Alex Yadao, president of
the American College of
International Physicians, said
the exam and other required
tests, as well as the travel
expenses, can amount to several
thousand dollars.
“Foreign doctors cannot
afford that,” he said.
The study, conducted by the
Educational Commission for
Foreign Medical Graduates,
appears in Wednesday’s Journal
of the American Medical
Association.
The study involved foreign
ers who applied for 2(X)1 pro
grams that began before the
Sept. 1 1 terrorist attacks. Newer
figures suggest that foreign
applications have surged since
Sept. 11, said the lead author.
Dr. Gerald Whelan.
The longer-term downward
trend “could have a significant
impact on the overall graduate
medical education population
and the resulting U.S. medical
work force,” the researchers
said, because foreign medical
graduates consistently represent
about one-fourth of both groups.
A similar clinical-skills test
proposed for U.S. medical stu-
NEWS IN BRIEF
dents has prompted objections
from the AMA and other groups
concerned about the exam’s cost
and effectiveness.
Fewer foreigners
apply to be doctors
The number of international
medical graduates seeking U.S.
medical training has plummeted.
The drop in applicants coincides
with new evaluations for spoken
English.
Number of international medical
graduates taking required exam
for advanced medical training
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alleged that a high ranking Roman Catholic
priest molested him in the 1980s withdrew his
lawsuit Tuesday after questions arose about the
validity of his claims.
Monsignor Michael Smith Foster, the chief
canon lawyer for the Archdiocese of Boston, had
maintained his innocence and said he was dev
astated by the accusations.
Paul Edwards, 35, claimed in a lawsuit filed
last month against the archdiocese and Foster
that the priest molested him repeatedly in the
1980s when Edwards was a teenage altar boy.
On Tuesday, Edwards filed a motion to dismiss
his lawsuit. It was dropped with prejudice,
meaning it cannot be refiled later, said Foster
lawyer Ellen Martin.
Last week, Edwards' former lawyer, Eric J.
Parker, withdrew from the case saying "issues
arose, central to the allegations" by Edwards.
Church officials had said Edwards' claims that
Foster raped him in his bedroom were implau
sible because of rules that prevented altar boys
from visiting priests' quarters for any significant
period of time.
Immediately after Edwards filed his lawsuit,
friends of Foster and another priest named in the
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