Practical Problems Faced by the Non-EnglishSpeaking Medical Graduates in Writing ScientificResearch Articles and their Judicious Solutions

Every year, thousands of international medical graduates (IMGs) apply for clinical residency positions in different specialties across the United States. In addition to the challenges they face ranging from travelling long distances to the United States, the language barrier, inadequate resources, the lack of awareness about ground realities and cultural gaps; the most significant challenge confronted constitutes an ever-rising need to score higher on the United States Medical Licensure Examination (USMLE) in comparison to the American medical graduates. Despite being the crème’ a la crème in their respective countries, the problem doesn’t end here. In order to verify the “readiness” of a candidate before inducting into a residency training program, an international medical graduate is expected to possess at least a few months of US clinical and research experience on his resume so as to prove he is conditioned enough for entering into the American System. Merely having research experience without any publication against their name leaves the candidate unaccredited. Therefore, the challenge for such residency applicants skyrockets because not only they have to find a research position, a job or a training slot but they are also expected to publish research papers in relatively reputable journals in a limited time frame with much restricted resources. In this short piece, we will highlight some challenges faced by the non-English speaking international medical graduates in writing a good quality research paper.