Residency Process: Graduation Year Discrimination Petition

Dear friends,

I wanted to let you know about a new petition I created on We the People, a  
new feature on WhiteHouse.gov, and ask for your support. Will you add your  
name to mine?  If this petition gets 25,000 signatures by November 25, 2011,  
the White House will review it and respond!

We the People allows anyone to create and sign petitions asking the Obama  
Administration to take action on a range of issues.  If a petition gets  
enough support, the Obama Administration will issue an official response.

You can view and sign the petition here:

http://wh.gov/T5o

Here's some more information about this petition:

Stop year of graduation cut offs for medical residency interviews and  
positions imposed by residency programs.
Dear President Obama,
I hereby petition you stop the discrimination upon residency applicants by  
residency programs based on year of graduation. While the Education  
Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates(ECFMG) which organizes the United  
States Medical Licensing Examinations(USMLE) places no limitations on year of  
graduation as a criterion for taking the prescribed examinations for  
physician-certification in the United States, which process qualifies medical  
school graduates for medical residency in our nation, it has been the  
practice of program directors to place graduation year cut offs as a  
selection criterion for invitation for residency interviews and subsequent  
positions. This is discrimination and an injustice in our nation.

The ERAS process is due for change.

Ema Uko-Abasi,MD