Countdown To The Match

Questions on today’s podcast come to us from Dr. Sagar Shah via twitter - you can follow him @thisissagarshah In a short exchange he asked questions a lot of our IMG clients ask, and I thought the answers would be valuable to a wider audience, so I’ll answer them here. There is a lot of good information available online from different sources like the ECFMG, ERAS, etc.  so I won’t regurgitate a lot of that stuff and will instead give more personal advice. Any US student who wants to get a bit of understanding may also gain some insight from today’s topics. As you may remember from earlier episodes, only about 50% of any given match year over the last 10 years has been US allopathic MDs, IMGs made up about 40% of the pool or may not know, IMGs currently make up about 25% of the physician workforce. Most of those in Internal medicine, psych, pedi - more primary specialties. Regionally, New Jersey, New York, Florida, and Illinois had the highest concentration of IMGs when last polled in 2009 - could have shifted