International Medical Graduate Physician Deaths From COVID-19 in the United States

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jun 1;4(6):e2113418. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.13418.

Authors

Deendayal Dinakarpandian¹, Katherine J Sullivan², Sonoo Thadaney-Israni¹, John Norcini³, Abraham Verghese¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
² Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.
³ Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Abstract

This case series study examines mortality rates due to COVID-19 among all physicians and international medical graduate physicians in the US.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / ethnology*
Education, Medical, Graduate
Emigration and Immigration*
Humans
Pandemics*
Physicians / statistics & numerical data*
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2*
Survival Rate / trends
United States / epidemiology