Liaison Officer for International Medical Graduates: Research Findings from Australia

EBM a challenge for international medical graduates.

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Peers or pariahs? The quest for fairer conditions for international medical graduates in Australia.

International medical graduates: from brain drain to potential gain

The international mobility of healthcare professionals is a well-documented phenomenon that has dynamic effects on global healthcare, labor markets, and the world economy. One aspect of this phenomenon—the movement of international medical graduates (IMGs) to the United States for residency training is often criticized because of the “brain drain” from their home countries. We propose a differe...

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...

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...