Initial practice locations of international medical graduates.

Objective: To examine the influence of place of graduate medical education (GME), state licensure requirements, presence of established international medical graduates (IMGs), and ethnic communities on the initial practice location choices of new IMGs.

Data Sources: The annual Graduate Medical Education (GME) Survey of the American Medical Association (AMA) and the AMA Physician Masterfile.

Study Design: We identified 19,940 IMGs who completed GME in the United States between 1989 and 1994 and who were in patient care practice 4.