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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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