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Show Student Exchange Program Backfires Immigrants Remain; Foreign Lands Lose Brainpower tions where foreign medical graduates can train in fields necessary to poorer countries, such as nutritional diseases, ma-larie ma-larie and other tropical ailments. But medical schools have to train foreign graduates in diseases dis-eases peculiar to the United States, for without the 11,000 interns in-terns and resident physicians serving in the United States, medical services would have to be curtailed, according to Dr. Halsey Hunt, executive director of the Educational Council for Foreign Medical graduates. Urged Expansion In his speech, Sen. Mondale urged expansion of medical schools and curriculum revisions so that foreign interns and residents resi-dents could concentrate on learning learn-ing methods to serve their people peo-ple rather than filling gaps in U.S. medical manpower. The "brain drain" was exacerbated exacer-bated by the 1965 immigration act which eliminated nationality quotas and opened immigration to skilled and professional people peo-ple and those with families in the U.S. Effects Obvious In one year, the effects are obvious : last year, under the old immigration law, 54 Indians and 51 Koreans immigrated to this country under the preference category for professional and technical workers. Under the new provision, 1,750 Indians and 400 Koreans came to the United States. The extent of the "brain drain" is shown in statistics from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the State Department Visa Service, and the Educational Education-al Council for Foreign Medical Graduates : Last year, the Agency for International Development in the State Department trained about 8,000 people from Asia, Africa, and Latin America to cope with their countries' particular needs ; at the same time, 4,000 other students who studied in the U.S. from those same areas adjusted their status to become U.S. residents. resi-dents. For each man leaving his country, an underdeveloped nation lost an educational investment invest-ment of many years, while the AID training lasted nine months; From 1962 to 1964, 8,151 students stu-dents from Asia, Africa and Latin Lat-in America adjusted their visas for permanent U.S. residency; Yearly, about 30 per cent of the Asians, particularly from Taiwan, Korea, and Iran, in the U.S. on student visas adjust to permanent status. expansion of medical training train-ing for U.S. citizens to eliminate dependency on foreign interns. Diplomatic Issue The loss of skilled manpower from underdeveloped countries is also a "steady, trying, troublesome trouble-some diplomatic issue," according accord-ing to Assistant Secretary of State Charles Frankel. The State Department has received numerous complaints from underdeveloped un-derdeveloped countries that emigration emi-gration Is impeding economic development. de-velopment. To complicate the problem, foreign students study at colleges col-leges and universities in the United States where openings are available, and the training and education they receive here are often useless in their own countries. coun-tries. African physicists, Turkish Turk-ish psychologists, and Southeast Asian computer engineers are finding few opportunities in their homelands. Few Medical Positions In the medical profession, especially, there are few posi- WASHINGTON (CPS) When student exchange programs for underdeveloped countries were incorporated into United States foreign policy 20 years ago, the move to educate and train people peo-ple to work for their nations' progress was hailed at home and abroad. The program is backfiring now. Increasingly, foreign students stu-dents are exchanging their visas for U.S. residency, rather than bringing skills back home. Foreign For-eign students are also being encouraged en-couraged to remain in the United States because critical shortages in some .professions have created cre-ated a dependency on them. Emigration Complaint This emigration from underdeveloped underde-veloped countries to the United States has brought steady complaints com-plaints to the. State Department and the United Nations, and has prompted Senator Walter Mondale Mon-dale (D-Minn.) to suggest means to halt the "brain drain." Sen. Mondale said in a recent re-cent Senate speech that there is an urgent need for attention to the program, since the emigration emigra-tion of human resources indispensable indis-pensable to progress in underdeveloped under-developed countries offsets the benefits of U.S. financial aid. Five-point Plan Last month the senator advocated advo-cated a five-point plan to solve the problem: detailed research by the Immigration Im-migration and Naturalization Service; pilot programs funded by the Federal government to set up college curricula relating to native na-tive problems; -creation of foreign placement place-ment bureaus in the United States to find opportunities for students in their homelands; bilateral agreements with nations to limit visas; and |
