.@DoNoHarm filed a complaint with the HHS Office for Civil Rights alleging that Corewell Health, Texas Tech, & HCA discriminate on the basis of national origin, favoring foreign-trained physicians in their internal medicine residency programs over American-trained doctors. 🧵1/ pic.twitter.com/K9j1eWk1vB
— Jay P. Greene (@jaypgreene) March 31, 2026
.@DoNoHarm filed a complaint with the HHS Office for Civil Rights alleging that Corewell Health, Texas Tech, & HCA discriminate on the basis of national origin, favoring foreign-trained physicians in their internal medicine residency programs over American-trained doctors. 🧵1/These residency programs have filled their cohorts almost exclusively with residents trained in a small set of foreign countries; and each is led by a director who was trained in that same region. These highly unusual hiring patterns raise concerns. 2/Do No Harm Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Three Healthcare Providers’ Discriminatory Residency Programs - Do No HarmToday, Do No Harm filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) alleging that Corewell Health, Texas Tech University (Texas Tech), and HCA…https://donoharmmedicine.org/2026/03/31/civil-rights-complaint-residency-discrimination/It is true that International Medical Graduates (IMGs) help address doctor shortages and often bring valuable training and skills. But hiring patterns that suggest discrimination in favor of IMGs would violate civil rights law and result in lower quality doctors. 3/Even when 28% of IM residents come from abroad, finding programs with nearly 100% IMG would be highly unusual. @HHSOCR should investigate these and other programs that display unusual hiring patterns to ensure that civil rights law is being observed. 4/• • •
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