{"id":29910,"date":"2025-06-18T21:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29910"},"modified":"2025-06-18T21:30:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:30:01","slug":"trump-travel-restrictions-bar-residents-needed-at-u-s-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29910","title":{"rendered":"Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks.<\/p>\n

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Travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration threaten patient care at hundreds of hospitals that depend on medical residents recruited from overseas. <\/p>\n

Foreign medical residents often serve as the frontline caregivers at busy safety-net hospitals in low-income communities. Normally the residents begin work on July 1. Orientation programs for some of them already started this week. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now some of those hospitals are racing to prevent staffing shortages.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf international medical graduates can\u2019t start their medical residencies on time on July 1, the ramifications are so far-reaching that it is really unconscionable,\u201d said Kimberly Pierce Burke, executive director of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers.<\/p>\n

Senior residents leave hospitals in June and go on to start their careers, she noted. Hospitals rely on new residents to replenish their ranks. \u201cIf they don\u2019t come on July 1, that leaves a hole in the patient care team,\u201d Ms. Burke said. \u201cWho\u2019s going to pick up the slack?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On May 27, the Trump administration suspended new interview appointments for foreign nationals applying for J-1 visas. The visas, for participants in cultural or educational exchange programs, are used by most medical residents arriving from overseas.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the State Department lifted the pause on visa appointments, according to an official who spoke anonymously to discuss an internal policy change. It was not immediately clear how many, or how quickly, physicians could be granted their visas. <\/p>\n

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Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks.Travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration threaten patient care at hundreds of hospitals that depend on medical residents recruited from overseas. Foreign medical residents often serve as the frontline caregivers at busy safety-net hospitals in low-income communities. Normally the residents begin work on July 1. Orientation programs for some of them already started this week. Now some of those hospitals are racing to prevent staffing shortages.\u201cIf international medical graduates can\u2019t start their medical residencies on time on July 1, the ramifications are so far-reaching that it is really unconscionable,\u201d said Kimberly Pierce Burke, executive director of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers.Senior residents leave hospitals in June and go on to start their careers, she noted. Hospitals rely on new residents to replenish their ranks. \u201cIf they don\u2019t come on July 1, that leaves a hole in the patient care team,\u201d Ms. Burke said. \u201cWho\u2019s going to pick up the slack?\u201dOn May 27, the Trump administration suspended new interview appointments for foreign nationals applying for J-1 visas. The visas, for participants in cultural or educational exchange programs, are used by most medical residents arriving from overseas.On Wednesday, the State Department lifted the pause on visa appointments, according to an official who spoke anonymously to discuss an internal policy change. It was not immediately clear how many, or how quickly, physicians could be granted their visas. We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29912,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29913,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29910\/revisions\/29913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}