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FLORIDA TARGETS FOREIGN MDS TO ADDRESS NURSE SHORTAGE
It has been reported that Florida hospitals have agreed to help fund a program that will train foreign doctors as nurses, in order to help with the current nurse shortage that is affecting Florida. 
Mercy Hospital, Kendall Medical Center, Cedars Medical Center and Aventura Hospital will pay two-thirds of the students' tuition and pay for the cost of faculty and support staff in exchange for a commitment that the applicants will work for the hospital for three years after graduation. 
 It is expected that the BS nursing program will begin this spring or summer and will take four or five semesters to complete at Florida International University in Miami. 
 The program was tailored for 40 doctors annually and it reported that over 400 applicants have already applied for it, most of them from Latin America, Cuba and the Caribbean. Those physicians have difficulty in obtaining a medical license in the U.S., but have medical training and desire to work in a health care profession in the U.S. 
 To practice medicine in the US, most physicians would need to enter an arduous residency program and pass a series of difficult examinations. For most foreign doctors, practicing medicine in the US is not a realistic option. 
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