BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine outpatient precepting for international medical graduates (IMGs) in family medicine residencies. The education of IMGs in residency programs has been a subject of concern. Multiple obstacles in acculturation may negatively influence IMGs' thoughts/feelings and subsequently affect their learning in teacher-learner interaction especially during ...

CONTEXT The contribution that international medical graduates (IMGs) make to reducing the rural-urban maldistribution of physicians in the United States is unclear. Quantifying the extent of such "gap filling" has significant implications for planning IMG workforce needs as well as other state and federal initiatives to increase the numbers of rural providers. PURPOSE To compare the practice ...

The United States of America has traditionally attracted people from various countries, including physicians and dentists, who wish to further their education career in the U.S. international medical graduates’ (IMGs) role been shown be vital academics healthcare delivery systems. IMGs’ demographics, contribution system, research, challenges system have extensively investigated. However, simila...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the cost of resources required to deliver a program to assess international medical graduates (IMGs) in Newcastle, Australia, known as the Workplace Based Assessment (WBA) Program. DESIGN AND SETTING A costing study to identify and evaluate the resources required and the overheads of delivering the program for a cohort of 15 IMGs, based on costs in 2012. MAIN OUTCOME M...

The increasing globalization of the medical profession has influenced health policy, health human resource planning, and medical regulation in Canada. Since the early 2000s, numerous policy initiatives have been created to facilitate the entry of international medical graduates (IMGs) into the Canadian workforce. In Ontario, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) developed alt...

Perspective ustralia has developed extraordinary reliance on international medical graduates (IMGs) compared with other OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries. Based on analysis of an unprecedented range of secondary data, I aim to define the recent scale and sources of medical migration, IMGs' immigration categories, their distribution, their performance in the ...

International medical graduates (IMGs) form a significant part of the Australian general practice workforce. Many experience social and professional problems and perform poorly inThe Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Fellowship Examination. This article reports on a pilot program in Mackay, north Queensland that addressed some of these issues.

The potential shortage of psychiatrists over the next 5 10 years has focused attention on the need to recruit more IMGs to fill the needs rather than use nurse practitioners or physician assistants. IMGs make up about 1/3 of first year psychiatry residents. These individuals have been found to provide services to the poor, the elderly and the psychotic. The quality of their medical work has bee...

BACKGROUND International Medical Graduates (IMGs) training within the Canadian medical education system face unique difficulties. The purpose of this study was to explore the challenges IMGs encounter from the perspective of trainees and their Program Directors. METHODS Program Directors of residency programs and IMGs at the University of Toronto were anonymously surveyed and asked to rate (u...

OBJECTIVES Explore trainee doctors' experiences of postgraduate training and perceptions of fairness in relation to ethnicity and country of primary medical qualification. DESIGN Qualitative semistructured focus group and interview study. SETTING Postgraduate training in England (London, Yorkshire and Humber, Kent Surrey and Sussex) and Wales. PARTICIPANTS 137 participants (96 trainees, 4...