Educational challenges faced by 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...

Challenges Faced by Medical Translators

Translation problems arise both from differences between language systems and from conceptual differences, since not all languages have terms to refer to different notions. Apart from this, medical language is a variety of language appropriate to different occasions and situations of use: it serves for the doctor-patient communication, it covers the area of communication from specialist to spec...

Educational support for specialist international medical graduates in anaesthesia

Educational support for specialist international medical graduates in anaesthesia.

OBJECTIVE To measure specialist international medical graduates' (SIMGs) level of learning through participation in guided tutorials, face-to-face or through videoconferencing (VC), and the effect of tutorial attendance and quality of participation on success in specialist college examinations. DESIGN AND SETTING Tutorials were conducted at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital between 19 S...

Which educational programs promote the success of international medical graduates in psychiatry training?

The exceptional importance of international medical graduates (IMGs) in academic psychiatry (1, 2) is underscored in this special theme issue of our journal. As noted by Boulet et al. in this collection, about 31% of the psychiatry workforce in the United States are IMGs, and about 32% are psychiatry residents (3). In clinical psychiatric practice, IMGs disproportionately serve poor patients an...