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.
The next significant wave of Muslim immigrants began in the mid-19th century. During the late 19th century until the 1920s, large numbers of Arabs, mostly from Lebanon and Greater Syria, arrived in the United States. Although the majority of these immigrants (almost 90%) were Arab Christians, there were sizable clusters of Muslims, most of whom settled in the Midwest. Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb, an early American convert to Islam, established a mosque and mission in New York City in 1893.