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Citizenship is as of the time of entrance into medical school. Top five countries based on aggregate data over a 25-year period.
Source: ECFMG database. Data current as of January 26, 2016.
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Exhibit 6: Top Countries of Citizenship, Certificants 1991–2015
Top five countries based on aggregate data over a 25-year period.
Source: ECFMG database. Data current as of January 26, 2016.
India
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Exhibit 5: Top Countries of Medical School, Certificants 1991–2015
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Electronic Residency Application Service Support
Services at ECFMG
Te Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) is a program of the
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) that enables medical
To learn more about ERAS
students and graduates to apply electronically for frst- and second-year
Support Services, visit
(PGY-1 and PGY-2) residency positions in accredited U.S. GME programs.
www.ecfmg.org/eras/.
ECFMG serves as the designated Dean’s ofce for students/graduates of
international medical schools who apply to U.S. GME programs that
participate in ERAS.
International medical students/graduates begin the ERAS application process by requesting an ERAS
Token, a unique identifcation number, from ECFMG. Te Token allows applicants to access AAMC’s MyERAS
website, where they can complete their residency applications, select the programs to which they will apply, and
assign supporting documents to these programs.
As the designated Dean’s ofce for international medical students/graduates, ECFMG assists these
applicants with the ERAS process and receives supporting documents such as Medical Student Performance
Evaluations, medical school transcripts, and letters of recommendation. ECFMG then transmits these
documents to each applicant’s ERAS application. ECFMG also transmits to the ERAS application reports of an
applicant’s ECFMG certifcation status and, if requested by the applicant, USMLE transcripts. Once supporting
documents have been transmitted to the ERAS application, they can be viewed by the programs to which the
applicant has applied.
For the ERAS 2016 season, ECFMG issued more than 21,000 ERAS Tokens to international medical
students/graduates. For these applicants, ECFMG had uploaded more than 245,000 supporting documents to
their ERAS applications by the end of 2015. Exhibits 7 and 8 show the top states and specialties, respectively,
for applications to programs for the ERAS 2016 season.
ERAS Fellowships Documents Office
All graduates of U.S., Canadian, and international medical schools who are in U.S. residency training
programs and who plan to apply to subspecialty training programs are directed to the ERAS Fellowships
Documents Ofice (EFDO), which serves as the designated Dean’s ofice for fellowship applicants. For the
ERAS 2015 season, 11,164 fellowship Tokens were issued through EFDO.
Outreach to International Medical Schools
In 2015, ERAS Support Services presented a series of webinars to educate international medical schools
on the intricacies and organizations involved in applying to medical residency programs in the United States,
and provided answers to ERAS-related questions submitted by medical school staf and faculty.
In addition, ERAS Support Services presented a webinar to EMSWP-participating international
medical schools to promote, demonstrate, and continue to grow the EMSWP ERAS program.
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