Aspirations of unemployed international medical graduates in the UK

Educational challenges faced by international medical graduates in the UK

INTRODUCTION International medical graduates (IMGs) in the UK constitute approximately one-quarter of the total number of doctors registered in the General Medical Council (GMC). The transition of IMGs into the health care system in the UK is accompanied by significant sociocultural and educational challenges. This study aims to explore the views of IMGs in medical training on the educational c...

International medical graduates and the cardiology workforce.

Recent publications have expressed the view that there is a shortage of cardiologists and it is growing worse. Both an increasing demand and a diminishing supply of cardiologists have been projected. An increase in the number of international medical graduates (IMGs) who enter cardiology practice has been proposed as a remedy for a projected shortage. The IMGs have to overcome challenges includ...

Co-operative farm credit for unemployed graduates in iran:an evaluation of the program in fars province

Specialty choice in UK junior doctors: Is psychiatry the least popular specialty for UK and international medical graduates?

BACKGROUND In the UK and many other countries, many specialties have had longstanding problems with recruitment and have increasingly relied on international medical graduates to fill junior and senior posts. We aimed to determine what specialties were the most popular and desirable among candidates for training posts, and whether this differed by country of undergraduate training. METHODS We...

International medical graduates' perceptions of entering the profession in Norway.

BACKGROUND There is little knowledge available about how it feels for an international medical graduate arriving in Norway. We have investigated how the initial period as an employee of the Norwegian health services is perceived. MATERIAL AND METHOD We conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 international medical graduates who had foreign training and citizenship. They had worked as doct...