Do you trust foreign-educated health care providers as much as their US-graduate counterparts

I suppose, the author of the question means that foreign-trained doctors conduct themselves less professionally comparing to their American-born counterparts.

Here is my observation, as I am a foreign-educated doctor myself: No foreign doctor (except Canadian) can practice medicine in the USA independently unless he/she successfully passes US Medical License Examinations and a complete a minimum of three years of USA-based the training program, and passes USA American Board exams.

Some doctors come from the countries where it is normal for a physician to speak to their patient from a position of authority. In some countries, women are treated differently than men and physician may have difficulties to adjust to the new cultural norms in the USA . Some foreign physicians have strong accents and are poorly understood by their American patients. But in many other cases, they go extra miles, acting more emphatically and attentively than their American counterparts, just because they are aware that they are being judged with the biased eye.

It really depends on a particular doctor. I don’t think that there is a definite trend.

  Refer: Kathleen Maynard