Based in Los Angeles, Residents Medical helps medical school graduates attain residencies. Among its services, Residents Medical helps its candidates by getting its international medical graduate (IMG) candidates acclimated with the US Health System by putting them in a teaching hospital where Residents Medical's candidates do their rotations, post-graduate externships, research tenures, observerships, amongst other proprietary educational tools to better prepare the candidate for an accredited medical residency in America.

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IMGs Applying for
PGY-1 Can Gain
an Advantage with
These Specialties
Residents Medical

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Introduction
 Based in Los Angeles, Residents Medical helps medical
school graduates attain residencies. Among its services,
Residents Medical helps its candidates by getting its
international medical graduate (IMG) candidates acclimated
with the US Health System by putting them in a teaching
hospital where Residents Medical's candidates do their
rotations, post-graduate externships, research tenures,
observerships, amongst other proprietary educational tools to
better prepare the candidate for an accredited medical
residency in America.
An IMG can stand out from the competition when applying for
postgraduate year one (PGY-1) programs by specializing,
according to a recent article on the American Medical
Association website. The article noted that fewer IMGs, both
United States citizens and others, applied for residencies in
the US in 2018 than in 2017.

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PGY-1
 According to the article, the best IMG PGY-1 specialties in
2018 were:
1. Pathology. Just over 45 percent of PGY-1 positions in
pathology were given to IMGs.
2. Internal medicine. IMGs filled just over 43 percent of PGY-1
positions in internal medicine.
3. Neurology. More than a third of PGY-1 positions in
neurology were given to IMGs.
4. Family medicine. A little more than 30 percent of PGY-1
positions in family medicine were awarded to IMGs.
Residents Medical has many opportunities available to its
candidates in these above specialties.