ArticleAcademic pathology
Normalized "medical inferiority bias" and cultural racism against international medical graduate physicians in academic medicine.
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- Pitfalls and Potential: Alternative Licensure Pathways for International Medical Graduates in Psychiatry.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2026Article
- International medical graduates pursuing pediatric neurosurgery fellowship training in North America: a 30-year analysis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026Article
- Institutional barriers to advancement in academic hospital medicine: A perspective from the margins.Journal of hospital medicine · 2026Article
- The current landscape and challenges facing international medical graduates in cardiothoracic surgery training.JTCVS open · 2025Article
- International medical graduates amongst pathology leadership roles: more than meets the eye.Academic pathologyArticle
- Authors' response to Letter-to-the-Editor from Smith, SM, et al., International medical graduates amongst pathology leadership roles: more than meets the eye.Academic pathologyArticle
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Abstract
Socio-historical barriers remain a concern in Academic Medicine. Regrettably, despite the modern cultural era defined by increased recognition and response to such issues, widespread covert barriers and misperceptions continue to limit the advancement of many, in particular, international medical graduate physicians (IMGs) who represent a significant proportion of the US physician workforce. Adversity is experienced in the form of cultural racism, affinity bias, and underrepresentation in distinct specialties as well as in leadership roles. Often, these unnecessary hardships exacerbate pre-existing discrimination in Academic Medicine, further marginalizing IMGs. In this article, we discuss the prevalence of "medical inferiority bias" and the resulting impact on US healthcare, specifying considerations to be made from a policy perspective.
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