Foreign grads sideline US-trained doctors in coveted programs, bombshell complaint alleges

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FIRST ON FOX: Three internal medicine residency programs are being accused of favoring foreign-trained doctors over American-trained doctors, with more than 90% of the most recent cohort of residents across the three programs coming from overseas, according to a civil rights complaint. Medical watchdog Do No Harm filed a complaint Tuesday with the Department of Health and Human Services against healthcare providers Corewell Health, Texas Tech University and HCA Healthcare, raising concerns over the demographics of their internal medicine residency programs. The complaint alleges that the three residency programs are discriminating against American-trained doctors and violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Affordable Care Act. "National origin discrimination is both unlawful and inconsistent with the broader American commitment to equal treatment," Do No Harm's Chief Medical Officer Kurt Miceli, MD said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "When residency programs favor foreign-trained physicians over American-trained doctors, they effectively prevent qualified Americans from accessing valuable, competitive, and prestigious learning opportunities." OVER 100 CALIFORNIA COLLEGES ACCUSED OF DISCRIMINATING AGAINST US-BORN STUDENTS IN NEW DOJ COMPLAINT The complaint revealed that at the internal medicine program at Corewell Health in Dearborn, Michigan , just one of the 33 residents attended an American medical school. In fact, 84% of those residents earned their medical degrees in just a handful of countries abroad: nine trained in Sudan, eight in Pakistan, and four in Jordan, with others coming from places such as Palestine, Bahrain, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The current director of the program attended medical school in Lebanon. At Texas Tech University, 95% of the 39 internal medicine residents were also trained at foreign medical schools. Similar to Corewell, these doctors hail from a concentrated set of countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle Eas…