Latin American Medical Graduates: II. The Readaptation Process for Those Who Return Home

Abstract

Among the many publications addressing the theme of foreign medical graduates in the United States, little attention has been given to those foreign medical graduates who have returned to their home country to practice after completion of postgraduate training at American hospitals and universities. This report, part of a study of FMGs from Peru who have completed postgraduate training in the United States in the 1965-1975 period, is concerned with the readaptation process of 70 physicians who have returned to Peru to practice medicine. The determinants of the decision to return, the academic, familial, and adaptational problems during the readjustment process, and the impact of these physicians on medical education and health care services in Peru are discussed.

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