International Medical Graduates in Cardiology Fellowship

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...

Working group 4: International medical graduates and the cardiology workforce.

Cardiology fellowship training programs.

SPECIAL REPORTS 139 Pre-existing policy and opinion have suggested that the maldistribution of specialists should be addressed by greatly increasing the number of trainees. Current projections suggest that a substantial excess of cardiologists will develop over the next few decades. Presently, in several sectors of the U.S., a surplus of cardiologists exists. It is our consensus that the traini...

Training in cardiology fellowship programs.

The study by Gurvitz et al. (1) provides a measured and reasonable assessment of the workforce of cardiologists to care for adult patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), the exposure of adult and pediatric cardiology fellows to adult patients with CHD, and several excellent suggestions to augment the workforce. The recommended training for physicians who care for adult patients with CHD h...

Canadian and immigrant international medical graduates.

OBJECTIVE To compare the demographic and educational characteristics of Canadian international medical graduates (IMGs) and immigrant IMGs who applied to the second iteration of the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) match in 2002. DESIGN Web-based questionnaire survey. SETTING The study was conducted during the second-iteration CaRMS match in Canada. PARTICIPANTS The sampling fra...