H-1B Visa Restrictions and US Primary Care Dependence on International Medical Graduates
This cross-sectional study evaluates specialty- and state-level reliance on non-US international medical graduates in primary care training and estimates the extent to which H-1B visa restrictions could disrupt this pathway.
Authors
- Sofoklis Goulas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7100-0647)
- Gregory A. Lamaris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0099-2041)
- Galen Perdikis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4537-2591)
- William C. Lineaweaver (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6887-8491)
- Georgios Bouloukakis
- Georgios Karamitros (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2208-8539)
- Irene Papanicolas
- Scott D. Lifchez
Institutions
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- University of Maryland Medical Center (US)
- University of Crete (GR)
- University of Maryland Medical System (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Providence College (US)
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
- Macmillan Cancer Support (GB)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Foundry (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Crete University Press (GR)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2026-08-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.29274
- Primary Topic
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00