[MPR, August 8, 2011] A state-funded program that helps immigrant doctors qualify to practice in Minnesota has become a casualty of the state budget agreement.

It shut down after lawmakers eliminated funding for the $150,000 program during last-minute negotiations last month.

Unless the program's funding is restored, its legacy will be the three doctors from Somalia who, after years of professional limbo, were finally able to begin residency training, a difficult proposition for immigrant doctors who received their training years ago.

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