re: NC to allow foreign trained dr's to practice with no licensing exams.

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Only work in impoverished areas eh ? I take offense to this. The governor that signed it , everyone that voted for it and their families should be forced to see one of these scholarly baboos as part of their insurance coverage

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Even that part isn't really being presented accurately in this thread:

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(a) The Board may issue an "internationally-trained physician employee license" to practice medicine and surgery to a physician when the Board has received satisfactory verification of all of the following requirements:
(1) The applicant has been offered employment as a physician in a full-time capacity at (i) a hospital that is located in North Carolina and licensed by the State of North Carolina or (ii) a medical practice located in a rural county with a population of less than 500 people per square mile, in North Carolina, where a physician fully licensed by the State under this Chapter is physically practicing on-site at the rural medical practice.

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Anyone who figures “we don’t have to pay them as much and can charge the same”.

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so white collar jobs welcome to the party of out sourcing !

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There is a way that we can use tax policy to attract doctors to underserved communities

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Then N.C. is fricking stupid and their representatives have already failed their constituents.

In Mo. we’ve had ORHPC(the Missouri Office of Rural Health & Primary Care) that was empowered by the state legislature and in conjunction with the Medical School at MU that provides grants and free tuition in exchange for contractual services post medical school completion since 1995(I had to look it up). It was codified into Mo. state law as of 2022 as 19 CSR 10-3.040 Rural Primary Care Physicians Grant Program. The future doctors that choose this route come out of medical school with no debt post residency and a job waiting for them with a guaranteed comparative salary.

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Office of Rural Health and Primary Care (ORHPC), provides funding to rural physicians beginning practice after July 1, 2022, in a Missouri county with a population of fewer than thirty-five thousand (35,000) inhabitants in return for providing primary care clinical services in rural Missouri.

Begin providing primary care services after July 1, 2022, in a Missouri rural county, in which they have not previously practiced;

Primary Care is defined as: General Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Reside in the same Missouri rural county in which services will be provided;

Not have previously received an award of funds under the Rural Primary Care Physician Grant Program;

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I see it as a reasonable solution to ensure those people have access to medical care.

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I do too, but I think there are other solutions that might be better.

Such as utilizing interns from US med schools, utilizing more NPs and PAs, using tax incentives (as already mentioned).

An imported labor force is going to be transient anyway. Nobody wants to practice in these rural areas and the foreign doctors are just looking for a pathway to get to greener pastures somehow, just like an intern would be.

For me it's not about thinking that a foreign doctor wouldn't know enough, it's about avoiding our own issues by just importing immigrants to do the work Americans don't want to do.

Haven't we had enough of that? Isn't it time to figure out how to get Americans to do what Americans need?

At a bare minimum, shouldn't the law specify the countries where this is OK. Shouldn't there at least be an evaluation of the licensing practices of the countries?

I could take chat GPT into an exam room and be a better doctor than these fake doctors.

Save it. Most here think it will be Bapu or Kweisi with degrees from Lusaka State University Correspondence Medical School.

If we could convince some German , French and Argentinian doctors to come, in my mind that would be a plus. They are very good and in most cases just as good or better trained.

Also, Japanese docs are very good.