AMA residency, work force policies draw IMGs' ire

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International medical graduates (IMGs) from the Michigan State Medical Society are calling for the American Medical Association (AMA) to clarify its policy on IMGs. The group nearly called for a vote of no confidence of AMA board members for what it calls four or five contradictory policies. It wants organized medicine to affirm its policy against discrimination of foreign-trained physicians and plans to introduce a resolution on the subject to the AMA House of Delegates.

Social aspects, Political activity, Social policy, Employment, American Medical Association, Residents (Medicine), Graduate medical education, Medical education policy, Michigan State Medical Society

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Group practice organization wants physicians on board

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The Medical Group Management Association voted to add two nonvoting physicians to its 14-person board of directors for 1996, at a meeting in New Orleans, LA. Most of the membership of the group practice organization are administrators. The group's members further voted to expand the board to 18 people in 1997, by adding two voting physician members. The organization has 6,800 group practice members.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Health care industry, Associations, Medical Group Management Association

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