A questionnaire survey was sent to the 2,270 Iranian physicians in the United States in 1973 to determine intentions to return to Iran and reasons for not returning. Results from the 760 returns show the most frequently cited reasons for not returning were professional, particularly lack of medical facilities and equipment in Iran. (JT)

The U.S. is now training and importing new physicians at a rate that will increase the ratio of physicians-to-population by nearly 50 percent: over the next 25 years. Similar increases in the supply of other health manpower will also result from current enrollment levels. Since only marginal, if any, improvements in overall health care will…

This report is concerned with the psychosocial and professional stresses of adaptation experienced by a group of 21 Peruvian doctors who have returned home to practice. (Author)

Presents a 10-point program for Americans to help Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs) become better acquainted with America. (Author)

A program is outlined in which psychiatrists from Indonesia are trained in Hawaii for the establishment and practice of child psychiatry in their home country. Planning philosophy, collaborative advance planning, and identification of crucial training issues, as well as the actual training are outlined. (Author)

Licensing authorities in Sweden have approached the problem of unequal or inadequate education of immigrating foreign medical graduates by establishing a program which includes language and law courses and a clinical apprenticeship or a 3- to 5-month course preparatory to the standard graduate training of Swedish medical school graduates. (JT)

Indications from a 1977 COTH survey are that 20 percent of member institutions expect a significant effect from the anticipated reduction of foreign medical school graduates permitted in the U.S., and that there are sizable interprogram shifts of funded house staff positions, especially into internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics, and…