Training international medical graduates [IMGs] in psychiatry: A cultural adventure

Training Needs of International Medical Graduates [IMGs] in Psychiatry

The potential shortage of psychiatrists over the next 5 10 years has focused attention on the need to recruit more IMGs to fill the needs rather than use nurse practitioners or physician assistants. IMGs make up about 1/3 of first year psychiatry residents. These individuals have been found to provide services to the poor, the elderly and the psychotic. The quality of their medical work has bee...

An examination of entrance criteria for international medical graduates (IMGs) into Canadian psychiatry residency programs

BACKGROUND Although international medical graduates (IMGs) are essential in health care service delivery, a gap exists in the literature about how IMGs are selected into psychiatry residency programs in Canada. The purpose of this study was to identify the relative weight or importance that Canadian program directors (PDs) of psychiatry place on certain selection criteria when matching IMGs int...

Selecting international medical graduates (IMGs) for training in US surgical residencies.

Training individuals who completed their medical education outside the United States, the socalled “International Medical Graduates” (IMGs), is an issue of growing importance. IMGs continue to fill vital positions not taken by US medical school graduates. In fact, Whitcomb et al reported that 12% of general surgery residency programs were “IMG dependent.” In the 2005 match, 9% of the 2382 gener...

The road to residency in United States: dilemma of International Medical Graduates (IMGs).

Which educational programs promote the success of international medical graduates in psychiatry training?

The exceptional importance of international medical graduates (IMGs) in academic psychiatry (1, 2) is underscored in this special theme issue of our journal. As noted by Boulet et al. in this collection, about 31% of the psychiatry workforce in the United States are IMGs, and about 32% are psychiatry residents (3). In clinical psychiatric practice, IMGs disproportionately serve poor patients an...