Doctors' Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession
Tania M. Jenkins, "Doctors' Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession"
English | ISBN: 0231189354 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0231189354 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The United States does not have enough doctors. Every year since the 1950s, internationally trained and osteopathic medical graduates have been needed to fill residency positions because there are too few American-trained MDs. However, these international and osteopathic graduates have to significantly outperform their American MD counterparts to have the same likelihood of getting a residency position. And when they do, they often end up in lower-prestige training programs, while American-trained MDs tend to occupy elite training positions. Some programs are even fully segregated, accepting exclusively U.S. medical graduates or non-U.S. medical graduates, depending on the program’s prestige. How do international and osteopathic medical graduates end up so marginalized, and what allows U.S.-trained MDs to remain elite?
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