Article ID: CBB932813392

Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry (2022)

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Graduates from foreign medical schools (FMGs) began to staff US state psychiatric hospitals after World War II, and became increasingly associated with the poor quality of those institutions. Public and professional commentary on FMGs criticized their skills and suitability for the US healthcare system in the 1970s, at the same time that state hospitals were under increasing attack. By the 1980s and 1990s, the association between international medical graduates (as they became known) and underserved populations became an argument in favour of easing restrictions on these graduates. The role of foreign-trained psychiatrists in the US public sector became a way for American psychiatry leaders to manage the problems of the seriously mentally ill, first with blame and then with neglect.

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Authors & Contributors
Johnstad, Petter Grahl
Bartlett, Annie
Robson, Alastair
Cahalan, Susannah
Lynne Jones
Rzesnitzek, Lara
Concepts
Psychiatry
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Emigration; immigration
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Patients
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
England
Hamburg (Germany)
Washington, D. C. (U.S.)
Ohio (U.S.)
South Africa
Institutions
Warwick County Lunatic Asylum
McLean Hospital (Belmont, Mass.)
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