How Immigration Policy Threatens US Medical Training and Patient Care: A Fragile Pipeline

Jeremy W Jacobs; Allison P Wheeler; Erin Horstman; Garrett S Booth

doi:10.1001/jama.2025.9782

How Immigration Policy Threatens US Medical Training and Patient Care: A Fragile Pipeline

JAMA. 2025 Aug 12;334(6):483-484. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.9782.

Authors

Jeremy W Jacobs¹, Allison P Wheeler², Erin Horstman^{3

4}, Garrett S Booth¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
² Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Cellular Therapy, University of Washington, Seattle.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

PMID: 40489315
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.9782

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses the potential negative effects on the US medical education and health care systems if the federal government continues to pursue limiting international students from studying in the US.