New York Times: Medical Schools in Region Fight Caribbean Flow

For a generation, medical schools in the Caribbean have attracted thousands of American students to their tiny island havens by promising that during their third and fourth years, the students would get crucial training in United States hospitals, especially in New York State. But in a fierce turf battle rooted in the growing pressures on the medical profession and academia, New York State’s 16 medical schools are attacking their foreign competitors. They have begun an aggressive campaign to persuade the State Board of Regents to make it harder, if not impossible, for foreign schools to use New York hospitals as extensions of their own campuses.

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It is a very good article about the competition between US medical schools and off-shore medical schools for clinical training sites. New York State has been an attraction state for importing physicians and medical students from abroad. Some of the off-shore medical schools have big bucks, $100 million over 10 years, to pay the local hospitals for their students to do rotations.