Combating prejudice and protectionism in American medicine: The Physicians Committee's fight for refugees from Nazism, 1939-1945

Refugee physicians fared better than any other occupational group. The National Committee for the Resettlement of Foreign Physicians helped immigrants pass licensing exams in some states that allowed them to take the tests, and to procure exemptions in other states. It thus helped physicians to become the only refugees to retain their professional status in their new country