Academic diversity programmes for non-US international medical graduates

The ineligibility barrier for international researchers in US academia

“…Many fellowships from both private foundations and federal agencies, as well as training grants, for instance from the NIH, are also not open for non-US scholars. This issue and its impacts have been previously highlighted in the case of medical students (Villamar and Albuja, 2022 ; David and Issaka, 2021 ; Radabaugh et al, 2019 ), but it also affects scholars in many other fields including STEM.…”