美国国家公共电台 NPR Travel Ban Adds Stress To 'Match Week' For Some Doctors

 

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Thousands of aspiring¹ doctors learn news of their future on Friday. That's the day they're told where they'll be doing their medical residencies. Match Day is the end of a nerve-wracking process. President Trump's efforts to ban travel from six countries complicated the process even though it's, again, been stopped in court. Here's Elana Gordon from member station WHYY.

ELANA GORDON, BYLINE²: About 40,000 students apply for medical residency in the U.S. each year for just about 30,000 slots. And for international medical graduates, it's even more competitive. Only about half typically get matched. For the roughly 1,000 applicants³ from countries that were included in President Trump's executive order on immigration, the pressure is even worse.

AMIN RABIEI: Yeah. It becomes, like, double the stress.

GORDON: Amin Rabiei went to medical school in Iran and has been working in Philadelphia on a research visa at Thomas Jefferson University. He got interested in medicine as a kid growing up in Iran. His dad had seizures⁴, and his mom struggled to take care of him.

RABIEI: So I decided⁵ to come here to have, like, better opportunity for, like, research and clinical educations to hopefully share this information and these skills for the people who need this in the undeveloped countries.

GORDON: He's hoping to become a neurologist. But he worries he'll be even less likely to get matched and then get the right visa because of uncertainties⁶ from Trump's executive order.

RABIEI: When you try so much hard to get to your dream and all by sudden, you feel that there is unexpected problem, it's really a bad feeling.

WILLIAM PINSKY: It is a valid⁷ concern.

GORDON: Dr. William Pinsky is president of the agency that certifies⁸ all international medical graduates seeking residency in the U.S. It also sponsors visas for a majority of them. He says the timing⁹ of the first executive order was terrible for the residency match process.

PINSKY: Because that all came out, you know, right before the program directors turned their lists in.

GORDON: He's hopeful those who already have visas will be able to get their situation worked out. But residencies start in July, and there's still a lot of questions about who can get visas and how long it'll take. As a result...

PINSKY: I surmise¹⁰ - and have talked to a few program directors - that were probably going to rank individuals from these countries lower on their preference order than they would have otherwise.

GORDON: This unclear landscape makes Dr. Robert Wimmer of Einstein Medical Center uneasy. He heads a small pediatric residency program in a low-income neighborhood in Philadelphia that relies heavily on foreign medical graduates. He says they can't afford to accept someone in their new class of just 10 who might not be able to start come July because of these issues.

ROBERT WIMMER: We're just not willing to take any risk. It creates a hole for us in our program and what we're able to do here in North Philadelphia.

GORDON: And there might be long-term health impacts in the U.S. Pinsky says international doctors often provide care in areas that other doctors might not want to.

PINSKY: We potentially could be losing qualified¹¹ people. And there won't be numbers to fill in the positions, so there could be an issue of access to health care.

GORDON: As for Amin Rabiei, he was thrilled to find out Monday that he has been matched somewhere. He'll find out where Friday. But he knows of others from Iran that weren't so lucky. For NPR News, I'm Elan Gordon in Philadelphia.

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INSKEEP: This story is part of a partnership¹² with NPR, WHYY's health show "The Pulse" and Kaiser Health News.

1 aspiring   

adj.有志气的；有抱负的；高耸的v.渴望；追求

参考例句：

• Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
• He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 applicants   

申请人，求职人( applicant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There were over 500 applicants for the job. 有500多人申请这份工作。
• He was impressed by the high calibre of applicants for the job. 求职人员出色的能力给他留下了深刻印象。

4 seizures   

n.起获( seizure的名词复数 )；没收；充公；起获的赃物

参考例句：

• Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year. 今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Other causes of unconsciousness predisposing to aspiration lung abscess are convulsive seizures. 造成吸入性肺脓肿昏迷的其他原因，有惊厥发作。 来自辞典例句

5 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

6 uncertainties   

无把握( uncertainty的名词复数 )； 不确定； 变化不定； 无把握、不确定的事物

参考例句：

• One of the uncertainties of military duty is that you never know when you might suddenly get posted away. 任军职不稳定的因素之一是你永远不知道什么时候会突然被派往它处。
• Uncertainties affecting peace and development are on the rise. 影响和平与发展的不确定因素在增加。 来自汉英非文学 - 十六大报告

7 valid   

adj.有确实根据的；有效的；正当的，合法的

参考例句：

• His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
• Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗？

8 certifies   

（尤指书面）证明( certify的第三人称单数 )； 发证书给…； 证明（某人）患有精神病； 颁发（或授予）专业合格证书

参考例句：

• Authority certifies the identity of sites on the internet. 权威负责向Internet网站授予其标识。
• The paper then certifies this algorithm by infrared image processing. 并且文中使用红外图像对这个算法进行了验证。

9 timing   

n.时间安排，时间选择

参考例句：

• The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
• The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。

10 surmise   

v./n.猜想，推测

参考例句：

• It turned out that my surmise was correct.结果表明我的推测没有错。
• I surmise that he will take the job.我推测他会接受这份工作。

11 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。

12 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。