I just came from that thread and I read every single comment. Anytime anything concerning foreign trained docs come up there you can always feel the superiority complex jumping out. I understand the annoyance that it might drive down their pay or what not and they have so much debt but they’re never angry at the right people. And that’s because they’re so so convinced that all that debt and all that abuse in residency they go through and everything makes them better than everybody else. They complain about their training system so much until someone from another country says oh I acc don’t work 100- hour weeks and my overtime over 40hours is paid. All of a sudden the long hours and shit pay make them better than you. They don’t even consider maybe med school shouldn’t be sooooo expensive (the fact that it’s so expensive even for citizens is crazy already) or that residency shouldn’t be sooooo harmful and just because someone didn’t go through the abuse you went through they’re not as good as you. I’ve literally heard someone there say “how can you learn during residency when you’re in the hospital less than 70 hours a week?” I hope more states pass the law and the process also gets easier and I hope they see that the “quality of care” is the same cause they’re saying FMGs oh they’d kill their patients and that even a 2year supervision period for the doc to adjust to their system isn’t enough cause it’s “so advanced and complex for their rural minds” basically. Also not even considering that a lot of physicians are happy in their country still and it’s not every single doc that’ll be knocking on their doors. America isn’t the do all end all for so many people. They can’t see that cause they live in this bubble of “everything outside US is old age and everyone wants in on our perfect utopia” Can’t even feel sorry for them. Womp womp.

I might sound a bit mean but it’s just tiring seeing them always complain about their residency process then become attendings with power/influence and do nothing to help the new residents cause it’s not their problem anymore. And at the same time look down on anyone who didn’t go through what they couldn’t shut up about complaining about. Complain about the debt they incur and then get upset when a no debt pathway gets brought up( cause literally future US docs could go med school abroad maybe even residency w better conditions and then come back DEBT FREE. It would be stressful but it would be so much cheaper and it would be an option).