ACP, AAFP express concerns on Trump’s executive order on immigration

The ACP, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and other medical associations recently released comprehensive statements announcing serious concerns about the effects that President Donald J. Trump’s executive order on immigration will have on medical education, access to health care services, public health and families.“Many of America’s physicians and students earn their medical degrees overseas and complete residency training in the United States, where they then continue to practice medicine successfully,” John Meigs, Jr, MD, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), said in a statement. “Discrimination based on religion and targeted at physicians and medical students, among many others, is simply un-American. These additional primary care physicians are very important to our health care workforce and provide much needed care to all segments of society, from rural to urban to underserved; infants to children, adults and the elderly.”