Immigrant Physicians And The American Promise Yasmin Sokkar Harker February 27, 2026

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/immigrant-physicians-and-american-promise As a child, I was very familiar with the term FMG: Foreign Medical Graduate. My parents were FMGs and their colleagues and friends were also FMGs. All of them had crossed oceans to make their lives in our rural, midwestern corner of the United States. I was raised within this dedicated, tight-knit community of professionals; but I had always wondered: How did we all end up here?