Texas Tech residency program favors foreign-trained doctors, medical group says

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A recent report by medical advocacy group Do No Harm revealed that Texas Tech University’s internal medicine residency program is staffed almost entirely by residents who attended medical school outside the U.S., raising concerns about discrimination.

The group’s findings show that 95 percent of Texas Tech’s residents are from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Syria, among other countries. The program’s directors completed their medical education in Iraq, according to the report.

Following this discovery, Do No Harm filed a federal civil rights complaint against the school.

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