Overseas registration

Assessing fitness-to-practice of overseas-trained health practitioners by Australian registration & accreditation bodies

BACKGROUND Assessment of fitness-to-practice of health professionals trained overseas and who wish to practice in Australia is undertaken by a range of organisations. These organisations conduct assessments using a range of methods. However there is very little published about how these organisations conduct their assessments. The purpose of the current paper is to investigate the methods of as...

Testing overseas doctors.

Developing Overseas Strategies:

This paper provides the reader with a systematic context analysis involved in acquiring and restructuring (reconceiving) knowledge needed for strategic management decision making and action. Within this structured context analysis, a considerable amount of unstructured entrepreneurial, innovative, and "breaking the mold" thinking and action can be required to gain the insights needed to win aga...

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...