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Pathways to Clinical Training Opportunities for International Medical Students and IMGs: The California Experience Cover

Pathways to Clinical Training Opportunities for International Medical Students and IMGs: The California Experience

Open Access
|Jan 2026

Authors

Margaret Akey

margaret.akey@ucsf.edu

School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, in San Francisco, CA

Brian Groves

Brian.Groves@ucsf.edu

International Students and Scholars Office at the University of California, San Francisco, in San Francisco, CA

James C. Hudspeth

jameschudspeth@gmail.com

Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, MA

Tracy L. Rabin

Tracy.Rabin@yale.edu

Department of Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT

Sarah Cortez

Sarah.Cortez@ucsf.edu

Human Resources in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco, in San Francisco, CA

Rebecca Silvers

rebecca.silvers@ucsf.edu

Institute of Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, in San Francisco, CA

Joseph Novotny

joseph.novotny@ucsf.edu

Office of Research at the University of California, San Francisco, in San Francisco, CA

Fekir Negussie

fekir.negussie@ucsf.edu

Institute of Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, in San Francisco, CA

Patti Orozco

Patti.Orozco@ucsf.edu

Institute of Global Health Sciences, Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco, in San Francisco, CA

Phuoc Le

phuoc.le@ucsf.edu

Medical Education at Vin University College of Health Sciences in Hanoi

Riya Sawhney

riya_sawhney@hms.harvard.edu

Program in Global Surgery and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University in Boston, MA

Nakul Raykar

nraykar@bwh.harvard.edu

Program in Global Surgery and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, in Boston, MA

Michelle Arteaga

marteaga@stanford.edu

Global Engagement Programs Manager in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Division of Global Health Equity at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA

John A. Davis Rodriguez

John.DavisRodriguez@ucsf.edu

Medicine and Vice Chancellor of Education & Student Affairs at the University of California, San Francisco, in San Francisco, California

Maureen Curran

macurran@ucsd.edu

Administration and Business Development in Health Sciences International at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, CA

Susan Byekwaso

sbyekwaso@yahoo.com

Makerere University, College of Health Sciences in Kampala

Faysal Saab

FSaab@mednet.ucla.edu

Medicine and Pediatrics in the Hospitalist Section at the University of California, Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, CA

Norkamari Shakira Bandolin

Sbandolin@ucdavis.edu

Emergency Department at the University of California, Davis, in Sacramento, CA

Michael S. Lipnick

Michael.Lipnick@ucsf.edu

Department of Anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco, in San Francisco, CA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.5020 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 21, 2025
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Accepted on: Dec 13, 2025
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Published on: Jan 8, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Margaret Akey, Brian Groves, James C. Hudspeth, Tracy L. Rabin, Sarah Cortez, Rebecca Silvers, Joseph Novotny, Fekir Negussie, Patti Orozco, Phuoc Le, Riya Sawhney, Nakul Raykar, Michelle Arteaga, John A. Davis Rodriguez, Maureen Curran, Susan Byekwaso, Faysal Saab, Norkamari Shakira Bandolin, Michael S. Lipnick, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.