TABLE 20.

Graduates of U.S. and foreign medical schools practicing as allopathic physicians in the United States^⁎+

Category	No. of physicians
	1985	1989	1994
All graduates	511,090	559,988	632,121
Graduates of U.S. medical schools	398,430	437,165	483,039
Graduates of foreign medical schools	112,660	122,823	149,082
U.S.-born	16,344	18,905	19,275
Foreign-born	96,316	103,918	129,807

^⁎Data, which are year-end numbers, are from the American Medical Association’s Physician Masterfile.

⁺Iglehart, JK. The Quandary over Graduates of Foreign Medical Schools in the United States. N Engl J Med 1996; 334:1679.