Indians barred from taking test for US practice

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Source: The Times of India

Jul 15, 2010, 01.28am IST

MUMBAI: Tens of thousands of Indians who went to the United States to cash in on the health industry boom have been served a blow as the federal government has decided against allowing Indians to sit for the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE), a licentiate test without which students cannot practice in the US.

The decision was taken by the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy, a national body, reasoning that it found "systematic and methodical sharing and distribution of recalled questions by significant numbers of graduates of programmes in the affected countries as well as several exam preparation companies specifically targeted to these graduates". Apart from Indians, students from Pakistan, the Philippines and Egypt have also been barred from taking the exam.

"The federation recognizes the significant consequences of this policy decision but feels that it needs to be made clear to all candidates that the federation will not tolerate security breaches," it stated in a notice sent out to all the candidates who had registered to take the NPTE. Candidates will now have to wait for a year, which is when the federation is likely to introduce a more secured version of the test.



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[kywildcat]

1. The Indian government is limiting and or denying

visas for americans going there to work-in american companies. Me thinks the indians have become a little full of themselves.

[OhioChick]

2. ......

:nopity:

[bowens43]

3. good

yrs , I'm a protectionist.

[johnaries]

4. "the federation will not tolerate security breaches,"

WTF? There's a lot more to this story, obviously. I'll be very curious to follow this story, but of course we won't see much in our own M$M.

[pnwmom]

5. I've heard that it's harder to get into a U.S. physical therapy program than into med school.

I wonder what percent of enrolled students are from outside the U.S.?

[JDPriestly]

6. Americans are perfectly capable of becoming physical therapists.

We should not allow people to get visas to the US to take jobs that Americans need and want. Not now when we have such high unemployment.

[Bette Noir]

7. And there are plenty of unemployed PTs in this country.

[grahamhgreen]

8. +1

[mackerel]

9. My cousin is a physical therapist and it was very hard for her

to get into the program and stay in it. Once she completed the program she found it very hard to find a job. There aren't that many positions open and then for those positions to go to J1's is very unfair.