Residency programs are a pathway for foreign-born doctors to become physicians in the U.S. and have played a critical role in preventing doctor shortages in rural and low-income areas.
Many foreign-born doctors end up in states and areas Trump won because of the visa programs Monday`s order will suspend when it takes effect March 16.
"In these places, there are lots of incentives for American trained doctors and foreign trained doctors to move and work," said Michael Stepner, a doctoral student in economics at MIT who helped analyze where foreign-born doctors live.
Swaths of Appalachia and the Rust Belt could be disproportionately affected, the researchers who analyzed data about physicians in the United States found.
The AAMC is still calculating the precise number of doctors directly affected by the latest ban and is expected to release a breakdown of specific numbers within the week.
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