My Doctor Is a Pakistani Muslim.

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31. With all these testimonials to mid-eastern MDs 1 could ask "why" do so many come from there?

I know this is a little off topic but the US has many talented students who do not have the resources to go into debt for med school or other higher education degrees.

What is wrong with our educational system so that so many MDs, engineers, IT professionals, those with higher education come from India, Pakistan & other middle eastern or eastern countries?
The educational requirements for MDs from the east & mid east are not the same. Med school residents & interns almost never have an undergraduate degree. The cost in those countries is much less. Many med schools accept students whose fathers pay a huge admission and so on...


http://www.pri.org/stories/2011-04-14/foreign-trained-doctors-kept-out-practice-us

As things stand, many counties are already losing their doctors to the US. Although foreign-trained doctors have trouble getting residencies here, some succeed. 
In fact, a quarter of the doctors currently practicing in the US were trained abroad.