Who We Are

Our Mission

Laphymed is a group of foreign fully licensed Medical Doctors in their own countries mainly from Latin-America, some with plenty of knowledge and clinical experience to impact positively the outcome of the health Care System in any Country with a shortage of physicians.

Laphymed ongoing commitment is to help all Hispanic migrant doctors in the US to become professionals in the medical field, addressing the shortage of culturally and linguistically competent Health Care providers in Rural and underserved communities reducing the gap between physician-patient relations that demographically affects mainly the Hispanic population.

Our Vision

Promote the participation of the greatest number of Hispanic medical professionals to obtain their medical license in the USA to become active in preventive health and social work in the community as high quality professionals and also to promote alliances of health care workers around the world through LaphyMed.

Objective

In the United States, our institution is designed to orient and prepare bicultural Hispanic physicians with medical training to obtain their license to practice medicine in United States.

Strategic Goals

Educate with USMLE preparation courses, raise awareness, inform and facilitate the mandatory need of the steps to obtain the license to practice in the United States.  Also promote, support and adopt strategies for attaining alliances with Health Care entities in the United States.

Promote, support and adopt strategies for attaining alliances with entities of health in USA.

Over 100 Doctor’s

Who have achieved medical certification in the United States

Over 90% passing rate

More than 90% passing rate on their first attempt in the USMLE

225-240 Score

Average score of 225-240 from the Long Beach course review

LAPHYMED: Latin American Physicians for Medical Education and Development.

International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in America are heterogeneous from 125 countries with varying cultural and linguistic backgrounds in search of advancing with knowledge and skills in medical institutions of higher learning delivering proper health care.

People in the U.S. who identified themselves as Latino or Hispanic grew 243% from 1980 to 2010, from just under 15 million to more than 51 million. The largest Latino populations in 2010 were found in California, Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois.

In 1980, there were 135 Latino doctors for every 100,000 Latinos in the U.S. By 2010, that number had fallen to 105. The ratio of non-Hispanic white doctors to non-Hispanic white patients, in the meantime, increased from 211 to 315 per 100,000.

California has millions of Hispanic immigrants predominately from Mexico. However, not 1 Hispanic country is among the top 10 countries which supply immigrant physicians to California. California ranked lowest in Latino-doctor-to-patient ratio with 50 physicians per 100,000 people. Although Hispanics represent 38% of California’s 37.5 million people with only 5.2% of the almost 90,000 practicing physicians’ work force in California are Hispanic. Further, almost 35% of California’s 13 million Hispanics reside in medically underserved areas (MUAS) compared to 20% of the total population.

Latino physician shortage is the product of years of Latino health professional supply neglect. This shortage did not happen overnight, and the problems created by this shortage likewise will not be answered overnight. Latinos as a group suffer disproportionately from poverty-related conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. Under the Affordable Care Act, more of them than ever have access to coverage and we are behind in capacity.

Latino physicians are greatly under-represented in the state’s physician supply. This representation should not be constructed to mean that only Latino physicians can, or should treat Latino patients. Spanish-speaking patients, however, prefer to see Spanish-speaking physicians and are more satisfied when they do affecting patients outcome. Language barriers negatively affect medical care and Non-Latino physicians are rarely fluent in Spanish.

To increase the number of Latinos physicians it is imperative to recruit and train Hispanic IMG’s, increase the numbers of Latinos that graduate from American Medical Schools and train non-Latino physicians in culturally effective ways to provide the proper medical care services to our Hispanic community and LAPHYMED can be part of the solution to this problem.

To increase the number of Latinos physicians it is imperative to recruit and train Hispanic IMG’s, increase the numbers of Latinos that graduate from American Medical Schools and train non-Latino physicians in culturally effective ways to provide the proper medical care services to our Hispanic community and LAPHYMED can be part of the solution to this problem.