Experiences of foreign medical graduates (FMGs), international medical graduates (IMGs) and overseas trained graduates (OTGs) on entering developing or middle-income countries like South Africa: a scoping review

Training Needs of International Medical Graduates [IMGs] in Psychiatry

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...

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...

Foreign medical graduates in the United States.

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Contradictory policies for foreign medical graduates.

EBM a challenge for international medical graduates.

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