Foreign-Educated Doctors Help Relieve Shortage In Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Doctors from South Africa, Nicaragua and Russia are working in Oklahoma under a program allowing small number of foreign-educated physicians to remain in the U-S after completingMonday, January 22nd 2007, 9:40 am
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Doctors from South Africa, Nicaragua and Russia are working in Oklahoma under a program allowing small number of foreign-educated physicians to remain in the U-S after completing their residencies.
The doctors are required to practice in a US Department of Health and Human Services-designated "medically underserved" or "health professional shortage" area.
The program began as a way to get doctors into rural areas but is now allowing them to work in urban areas to provide treatment to the poor and the underserved.
In Oklahoma last year two doctors were assigned to rural areas of the state and five others to urban hospitals.
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