FRCSC - This stand for Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. To be certified in plastic surgery, doctors do a 5-year residency program after receiving their MD. Training involves on-going oral and practical evaluation. If successful, the doctor becomes FRCSC. When these initials appear after a surgeonâs name, it indicates certification in a specialty â ophthalmology, otolaryngogly or plastic surgery, for example.
Quick Answer. According to a 2012 study by the Pew Research Center, most immigrants to the United States come from the Asia-Pacific and Latin America-Caribbean regions. The study showed an increase in immigrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East from 1992 to 2012 and a decrease in immigrants from Latin America, Europe and other parts of North America.
Between 2007 and 2008, the Indian foreign-born population surpassed the Chinese and Hong Kong-born population to become the third largest immigrant group in the United States after immigrants from Mexico and the Philippines (see Table 1; see also the pie charts showing the top 10 countries of birth of immigrants residing in the United States over time here.).