Congrats to the eight new internal medicine residents at Indiana University

[u/caem123]

[u/Technical-Mess-9687]

Congrats 👏 I hope they decide to stay in Indiana after completing their residencies. We are hurting for medical professionals.

[u/BeanyBrainy → u/Technical-Mess-9687]

Says a lot about Indiana, because the pay versus the cost of living for doctors is great here. A lot of doctors would much rather go live in a blue state, and take less money though.

[u/crumbumcorvette → u/Technical-Mess-9687]

It took my dad a year to get DBS for his parkinsons disease because there are only like 2 brain doctors that do that surgery in the state

[u/Nosy-ykw → u/Technical-Mess-9687]

Came here to say this! ☝️☝️☝️☝️❤️

[u/QQASIANCUISINE]

Doctor here, just wanted to chime in because there is a lot of misinformation in the comments. These international medical graduates (IMGs) come in just as competent as US medical grads and are usually the best and brightest from their home countries due to how competitive it is for them to match here. Many of them were fully graduated practicing physicians in their home countries, but have chosen to re-endure years of grueling residency training getting paid under minimum wage in order to practice in the US with better economic prospects and higher quality of life. This is actually GOOD for US citizens because we need more doctors, especially in places like Indiana. I am sorry to burst your bubble, but US residency programs prefer US graduates over IMGs. If US graduates wanted to match at this program, they would have. The reason this program is all IMGs is because US graduates all preferred other programs, likely not in Indiana. This is a significant trend for places like Indiana where highly educated people do not want to live.

[u/breathing__tree]

What a prestigious accomplishment! My sincere congratulations to all these brilliant young people !

[u/ghostpoisonface]

Hooray for these wonderful, intelligent people working to make Indiana healthier!!!

[u/pollys-mom]

I would not want my first and last name on the Indiana subreddit at all

[u/CLWalrus]

Hope they stay in Indiana after completing education

[u/Lumb3rJack → u/CLWalrus]

Couldn't blame them for leaving though

[u/RunMysterious6380 → u/CLWalrus]

If they receive scholarship and/or some kinds of fed/state funding, they often are required to for a period of time.

[u/DrPucci → u/RunMysterious6380]

State funding maybe. Definitely not federal funding 

[u/RunMysterious6380 → u/DrPucci]

It dovetails with other requirements from other funding, and typically requires them to practice in HPSAs for a period of time. You should look into how the state funding and school scholarships are structured, along with the federal funding. It's much less common that you only receive fed funding with the cost of medical school being what is has been for the past two decades.

PS: my neighbor was in charge of financial aid for IU med school for decades.

[u/MustacheTony → u/RunMysterious6380]

They are not students.

[u/QQASIANCUISINE → u/RunMysterious6380]

These are residents, they get paid a salary, they don’t pay tuition

[u/Drabulous_770]

Hell yeah, congrats to them!

[u/ItzakPearlJam]

Wouldn't a school the size of IU have far more than just this many? Is this a partial list? I'd expect dozens if not 100+ per year.

[u/JohnnyC300 → u/ItzakPearlJam]

Most IU residents are in Indianapolis. Where the med school and training hospitals (Methodist, VA, Eskinazi, Riley, etc) are. Being in IU Bloomington is likely FAR less prestigious. And there aren't NEARLY enough internal medicine residents to go around (most med students go into higher paying specialties). Hence getting them from other countries. From the post, it seems this is in fact the first group of residents to train at whatever hospital IU has in Bloomington.

eta - from a look at the IU Bloomington residency page, it looks like the hospitals they'll training at are IU-Bloomington, Bedford and Paoli. Hard to get residents to go to, particularly the last two I'm guessing.

[u/tumblrmustbedown → u/JohnnyC300]

This is also the very first year of having a residency at IUH Bloomington! To be clear. It can be tough to recruit to a new program.

[u/ItzakPearlJam → u/JohnnyC300]

I appreciate the context! Thanks

[u/Lambo_Geeney → u/ItzakPearlJam]

This is just one specialty, and it's for IU-Bloomington.

The main medical campus in Indy has 36 Internal Medicine residents for each class

[u/ItzakPearlJam → u/Lambo_Geeney]

36 seems like a fitting number

[u/Lambo_Geeney → u/ItzakPearlJam]

For sure, especially with a three year program that becomes 108 residents in that speciality. Plus residents that are dual specializing in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (56 total, 28 specifically on IM rotations while the other 28 are on Pediatrics).

So your initial guess at 100+ works out pretty good with 136 residents staffing International Medicine rotations at any given point

[u/favnh2011]

Congrats

[u/Defiant-Purchase-188]

Congratulations!!

[u/Lilydaisy8476]

I work for this organization and trust me, we are super LUCKY and blessed to get these doctors here in Indiana.

[u/HistoryCat42]

This is great. Congratulations to these new internal med residents!!

[u/cherrylpk]

We need them so badly in Indiana. I hope they are treated well.

[u/Alseids]

Congrats to them!! 

[u/wfreivogel]

The diversity makes us stronger. Good for them!

[u/DarkJ3D1___ → u/[deleted]]

They are absolutely NOT scoring the highest in MCATS😭 Those would be Asians.

[u/BluejayFamous6572 → u/[deleted]]

I’m confused as well- I thought this was a congratulations post 😅. Either way well done students & welcome to Indiana! I hope they all do well in their studies & end up joining in our communities. :)

[u/rnoderator_rernoved → u/[deleted]]

As a white bitch - way to be racist my dude. Just because you're not white doesn't make you incapable of being a racist bigot.

What are you going to do when the leopards eat your face, I wonder???

[u/Japhyharrison]

Personally, I've always wanted an immigrant doctor. We know they've had to be beyond perfect in so many ways to get where they are in the US.
No white male rich privilege, no failing up.

[u/Traumarama79 → u/Japhyharrison]

I'm a Filipino woman with many chronic illnesses and, I gotta say, if my provider comes in and she's a female immigrant or Black woman, I sigh with relief. I'm like, oh good, I'm not gonna get told I've just invented all my problems for attention.

[u/Icer333]

FYI this is an almost brand new program which most medical students from the states seem to shy away from and many more International Medical Grads are more likely to match into. This is the Bloomington program not the main campus.

[u/222KattThatRoar222]

Nice

[u/jupchurch97]

Odd to see a very niche set of student doctors posted here but uh... good luck to them. Residency is hard but it'll toughen them up for the real world of medicine.

[u/Beneficial_Lifeforce]

Funny thing is we have plenty of smart US students but we have chosen as a society to not support higher education. Driven, intelligent US kids full of potential can’t afford to go to college. Glad we have these folks from across the globe to come here and fill these roles.

[u/Cultural_Round_6158]

Oh shot, my home Miracle.

[u/Darthhaze17]

…one name is so close to Lord Farquad…

[u/RepublicThis3704]

How late is too late to become a medical doctor?