Overseas doctors and hospital staffing.

Overseas doctors and the staffing structure of hospitals.

The introduction of the new immigration rules will considerably reduce the number of overseas doctors available for junior hospital appointments over the next five years. To offset this sponsorship schemes should be offered by universities and colleges comprising training courses, entry to examinations, and hospital appointments, and training programmes should be adapted to make objectives atta...

Testing overseas doctors.

Overseas Doctors Training Scheme.

The Overseas Doctors Training Scheme was estab lished by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in August 1989. Feedback from trainees placed in post has indicated that their early experience in the UK could have been eased had they been able to attend an induction course which addressed their specific needs. In response to this the Overseas Liaison Com mittee decided to hold their first induction ...

Overseas doctors' training.

For many years British paediatricians have been welcoming overseas doctors to their hospitals for postgraduate training, and of some 270 paediatric registrars currently employed in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales over 100 were born overseas. These posts have always offered good practical training, although their organisation has of necessity been haphazard. In a memorandu...

Overseas doctors: future training and employment.

The Royal Commission on the National Health Service assumed that "the expansion of entry to United Kingdom Medical Schools will eventually result in a reduction of overseas doctors employed in the NHS."' This would happen, it thought, because of the formidable difficulties overseas doctors would have finding jobs, but it did not propose policies for controlling the immigration and training of o...