Help for Rhode Island’s immigrant health-care professionals From: projo.com

Esperanza Gomez, 50, is a physician, trained in Colombia, who spent 17 years at a children’s hospital in the Colombian city of Cali before coming to the United States four years ago. She would like to obtain her license to practice medicine in the United States, but the path for foreign-trained doctors is not easy, involving three lengthy exams, considerable expense, and a three-year residency program.

But now there is an organization designed to assist people such as Gomez. The Rhode Island Welcome Back Center, at Dorcas Place, 220 Elmwood Ave., was created to help immigrants trained in the health professions find appropriate work in this country. It officially opens tomorrow and Manuela Raposo, director of the center, said she’s already been contacted by 32 people, including Gomez, who want to make appointments.”*

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