"We're IMGs, and we're often seen as human garbage outside of primary care": A qualitative investigation of dynamic status hierarchy construction online by medical trainees.

In the United States health care system, "USMDs," or allopathic US-trained medical graduates, are generally considered higher status than "non-USMDs," or osteopathic and international medical graduates (also abbreviated as IMGs). Two key aspects of this professional hierarchy have yet to be understood: one, how it is socially and culturally reproduced during specific medical training timepoints, such as the US residency placement cycle; and two, how changes within this hierarchy may be occurring among the new generation of medical trainees and professionals. To answer these questions, I qualitatively analyzed comments from a selection of medical student Reddit posts, called "Name and Shame," where users discussed their experiences with discrimination and mistreatment during residency interviews spanning 2018 to 2020.

Separate but Equal? The Sorting of USMDs and Non-USMDs in Internal Medicine Residency Programs.

Background: The US internal medicine workforce relies on international and osteopathic medical graduates to fill gaps in residency. Little is known about the distribution and impact of IMGs, DOs, and USMDs concentrating in different types of IM programs.

Objective: Determining the extent to which USMDs, DOs, and IMGs concentrate in different types of IM programs and comparing Board pass rates by program concentration.