Dr. Padmini Ranasinghe Elected to AMA Post
| GIM’s Padmini Ranasinghe, MD, MPH, was notified on May 15th that she has been elected to the Governing Council of the AMA’s International Medical Graduates (IMG) Section. The section is the principal contact for 35, 800 IMG members of AMA. The IMG Section points out that one fourth of medical residents in the United States are International Medical Graduates. |  |
The IMG Section seeks to articulate the viewpoints and concerns of physicians who trained abroad and pursues activities in numerous areas of interest to IMGs, among them physician workforce issues, leadership development, licensure issues, and outreach to ethnic communities. | |
