[conanbatt]

Residencies are one of the most grueling experiences for human beings ,and a restriction that makes doctors go through that process twice (in their home country and then in the US) amounts to a strong restriction.

Asking an experienced doctor to go through a residency is worse than asking software developers to get a doctorate if they want to write code in the US.

[ghufran_syed]

Also, it's not that easy to actually get a place in a US residency, even if you are willing to go through it again.