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Yes doc they are only talking about the unused res spot and how to distribute them among programs, with diff programs having priority over others (eg, rural track programs are given priority).
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The bill does not go into full effect until 2014. There are only few things that go into effect now. The residency increase is NOT 15,000 like someone on this forum thinks. It is less than 5000 and that part of the bill DID NOT pass yet and will be considered at a later time (in a "fix-it" bill).
There will be 1000's of new DO students graduating from 2011 who will be applying for MD residencies and they will get priority over any IMGs. Also, there will be increases in medical school spots and new medical schools (already 1 opened last yr in Florida and opening in 2012 are 2 more med schools in CA, 1 in NJ, etc). The top 4 Carib med schools (SGU, AUC, Ross, SABA) will also increase their slots that will benefit US born and educated citizens who will obviously have priority over any other non-US citizen IMG for residency slots.
Bottomline, IMGs will always have an uphill battle unlike in the past when many US citizens did not consider a career in Medicine because they could make more money in wall street or elsewhere. Today, especially in a weak economy many many US college grads want to enter into Medicine and that is why you see rapid growth in Carib med schools.
So the net benefit will be to the new DO students and US citizen carib grads. Only then will the IMGs get a chance. The competition WILL NOT decrease by any means for IMGs from other countries. If anything, it will be even more as the US citizens continue to consider an MD career especially due to the effect of the Great Recession that US is in today.
