What is an IMG/FMG?
Those who have graduated from medical schools outside of the United States and Canada are called International Medical Graduates (IMGs) or Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs). Sometimes, US citizens who have attended foreign schools are called USFMGs to distinguish them from non-citizens. There has been a move of late among some members of Congress, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and the AAMC, in light of a perceived surplus of physicians in the US, to reduce the number of Medicare-funded residency positions to 110% of the number of graduating US medical school seniors. As of yet, this has not been implemented.
