The number of FMGs in a field is just an echo of medical student perception of the field. This may be correct or incorrect. Most likely it is incorrect. In fact, if a medical student believe your posts, he should be stupid to go into radiology.
I still don't understand what is the intention behind these posts? You claim that you are a resident, but you don't know how radiology report works (you still think that people dictate in india) and you don't know about situation of fellowships these days.
Anyway, I am not going to argue anymore. Just my experience is different from your experience. Nobody is making 500K+ in big cities these days, but nobody is also working all weekends for 125K. Just for comparison, a lot of fellowships pay 65-70K with moonlighting opportunities and you probably can clear 100K. And you have few weekend calls and no night call.
Again, I really don't know what is your intention. But there should be good reasons, since you are really persistent in what you say.
The number of FMGs is not a perception of med students. It is directly related to the competitiveness of the field because FMGs are the last ones considered when residencies look at applicants. A small community program in Chicago matched 1 resident, and the other two were filled by SOAP. It will ultimately be those FMGs that can't find jobs because they will be least connected, just like those poor FMGs who go into nuc med not knowing that there are exactly 0 jobs for stand alone nuc med docs. But the PDs don't care and don't want to lose the free labor, so those residents don't hear a peep about the job market until it's time to find a job.
I could tell you the names of the radiologist I know who works from Friday night to Sunday night for 125K, and I could give you the names of the residents I know who just recently (this past July) started residencies in different specialties mostly due to job market concerns. But that would not be professional and defeat the purpose of an anonymous forum.
After reading your attempts to put doubt into whether or not I'm actually a radiology resident, it sounds like maybe you're not in radiology. Telerad companies send US BC rads who want to live in foreign countries so they can work during the day for night reads in the US. While the majority of reads are not made by nonUS BC rads, there are pilot programs that allow foreign rads to analyze the images and compile the report. Then, one US BC rad signs off on those reports of multiple foreign rads and how much they go over the images is up to them since it is their name on the report. This is technically compliant with US regulations and medicare billing because the reporting physician is US ABR certified. If you look at what I said before, this is not the norm at this time.
My purpose here is to encourage those going into rads (maybe some who would be happy doing something else) to research the job market and make an educated decision.
What's your end goal here? Maybe I can just say you're the PD at one of those crappy community programs that opened up shop during the boom and don't want your spots unfilled cause then you might have to start paying for a nighthawk or cover the nights yourself? See how easy it is to start questioning random people online.
Radiology, like every other profession, is in a situation where a large number of employees if good for those who already own practices because it allows them to work new employees for little while collecting more for themselves off the work of newer employees. Then they let those associates go and never make them partner. Every group is not like this, but there are groups like that and those types of groups will increase with the number of potential radiologists increasing. Greed always wins out, especially in large metro cities. Read online about how a private practice group works. More radiologists is beneficial for established partners and academic attendings. It is terrible for residents/fellows/recent grads. Eventually, the entire specialty then stagnates like pathology, in terms of job market.
And to the med students, since I am a random online person, don't take any of what I say as truth. Ask around and make the decision yourself.
Lastly, if the ABR does cut about 200 spots, then the job market probably would open up since there are older rads expected to retire sometime before they die. But I wouldn't bet on that happening.
