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Postgraduate Training
Many foreign nationals who receive their first degree in medicine (M.D.) in their home country choose to continue their graduate medical education in the United States. To be eligible to practice medicine in the United States, all physicians, regardless of whether they were educated in the United States or outside the United States, must:

  • receive the first professional medical degree from a medical school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education;
  • complete a period of residency or graduate medical education;
  • pass state licensure examinations.

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