IHS as Internship only GP?

[DeadCactus]

Anyone know of any people working for IHS (or any other government entity with only a medical license and no residency completion)? I assume not, but the government seems to be the last bastion of the GP...

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[altap]

MO Gov. Nixon signed into law a bill designating med school graduates who passed Steps 1 and 2 as Assistant Physicians (basically GPs) to work in underserved areas as medical providers. These doctors will be under close supervision by a board certified physician for a month, afterwhich they will practice medicine solo as long as they are within 50 mile radius of the BC physician.

 

[styphon]

I work for IHS facility but my contract is with the local tribe.

They required not only a license, but also to be boarded in our speciality. We have a peds/IM MD, 1 IM MD, 2 peds MDs, family med MD (me), 1 OB MD, 2 endo MDs --and we are all boarded.