My factual basis for this statement is purely out of personal and professional experiences of doctors and specialists I've met purely by chance. Yes, I know this is NOT ideal and not very convincing. But I will try my best to show/tell you as most statistics in the US rely on NRMP resources to get this information. Yet, nonetheless, I will explain so here why I am very confident that its not impossible or as difficult as it may seem.
1) In the town I lived in my entire life, MOST of the doctors that I have run into or attended have graduated as an IMG/FMG. They either graduated from the Carribbean, Pakistan, India, China, Philippines, etc. AND they have established themselves so successfully that they have NATIONAL level organizations focused on improving career opportunities in the US. Many of these same physicians are Cardiologists (inventional and non-interventional), Cardiothoracic surgeons, Oncologists, General Surgeons, Gastroenterologists, and Obs/gyn. Now I don't know EVERY doctor who was an IMG but many of these doctors are soo good at what they do, they're practically known to everyone in our community. Again, ALL IMGs. They did their training in big hospitals too! Like Mayo clinic, Stony Brook Medical, NYU, Columbia, etc. You can go and find them in Cleveland greater area. Even Cleveland Clinic, under their departments, you can find doctors who graduated and completed their residency abroad and finished their board exams before working there as a general surgeon! I know this because I was admitted there for a personal health reason. I even met a Syrian graduate who was a General Surgery resident!!
2) My research experiences allowed me to meet people in the hospital I worked at over the summer at Mount Sinai, in NYC. There my boss/department head was a medical graduate from Ireland. She's a Nephrologist AND her PI for her lab is also a nephrologist sub-specialized in transplant nephrology. He graduated from India, and did his residency and fellowship at Mount Sinai. A vascular surgeon who I worked with was a graduate from the Caribbean!! Heck, even in my undergraduate years, when I worked in my lab, there was a neurosurgeon who also graduated from the Caribbean!!
3) Currently, one of my professors from my school, and Irish med school btw, did his residency at HARVARD in gastroenterology and his brother is now a big time gastroenterologist as well at Cornell who also did his med school education in Ireland and residency in the US at Mayo. In fact, my professor met his wife, ANOTHER IMG, at Harvard who also did a residency program in Obs/gyn. My professor moved back just cause he liked the laxed hours here in Ireland and great career opportunity according to him.
4) I met a Japanese graduate doing residency, just recently, at HSS (Hospital for Special Surgery, in Orthopedic surgery!!
I can go on for days and days and yes, I'm sorry I don't have a statistics sheet/packet to provide. But I am a brutally honest person, maybe a bad thing now that I think about it, but regardless I haven't met these people by actively intentionally searching for them, but rather by coincidence, all of them. I never found any intention to go and search for these people either, we just happened to cross paths. So can you convince someone by statistics if every other person I meet is an IMG in a competitive speciality?? Its more than just chance at this point, its reality. I am being as honest as I can be. Again, I want to emphasize, I'm not saying its easy or a walk in the park for IMGs, but its not THAT hard either. AND in fact, I think its also fair to say that if people gave IMG's a good chance within our new uprising population of doctors, that can change too! (personal opinion) Anyway, I hope this is somewhat convincing?? But if not, idk what else to say. Simply, I just want a list of places guys that will consider me. I'm not trying to argue with anyone here and I'm just trying to live my life. Again, sorry if any of you guys got offended at my initial statement, but its going to take something much more than a statistics sheet to convince me. If you want to talk more about the match stuff in this regards just PM, I'm more than happy to talk there about this stuff. And remember, who knows maybe I do have a chance, maybe I am a decent rare candidate who can make it, why not??