Canada increasingly reliant on foreign-trained health professionals

Foreign–trained medical professionals: Wanted or not?
A case study of Canada

In Canada, the shortage of health care professionals and the dependence on international medical graduates to fill gaps in the health care work force is expected to increase in the coming years. Over the last half century there has been a trend of the migration of medical graduates from low– and middle–income countries (LMICs) to the developed world. The recipient nation and the immigrating phy...

Reflections on the ethics of recruiting foreign-trained human resources for health

BACKGROUND Developed countries' gains in health human resources (HHR) from developing countries with significantly lower ratios of health workers have raised questions about the ethics or fairness of recruitment from such countries. By attracting and/or facilitating migration for foreign-trained HHR, notably those from poorer, less well-resourced nations, recruitment practices and policies may ...

A Review on Interprofessional Education in Health Professionals’ Training

Introduction: Interprofessional education (IPE) as one of the educational methods has been emphasized in many literature. It is believed that it can increase Interprofessional collaborations and improve the quality of patient care. The purpose of this study was to investigate the concept, teaching- learning process and effectiveness of IPE in health professionals’ training. Methods: This was ...

Alberta steps up recruitment of foreign professionals.

Implementation of screening tools and brief intervention by health professionals trained by a distance learning course

There is evidence for the effectiveness of screening and brief intervention (SBI) for risky alcohol and other drug use when administered by trained health professionals. However, there have been no controlled studies on the implementation of BI techniques when health professionals were trained by a distance learning (DL) process. In this study, we evaluated the use of SBI by health professional...