Overseas doctors' training

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...

Current dilemmas in overseas doctors' training.

International medical graduates (IMGs) are a remarkably successful professional group in the United Kingdom making up to 30% of the NHS work force. Their very success and media publicity about general practice and consultant shortages, has led to a large influx of inexperienced doctors seeking training opportunities in competitive specialties. In 2003 a record 15,549 doctors joined the medical ...

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...

Testing overseas doctors.