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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...

Survey of Queen's University medical graduates.

Little work, however, has been done in this field in Northern Ireland. One of the main functions of the Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical Education is to provide a careers information and advisory service for recent graduates. This service is limited by a lack of basic information about the factors which influence young doctors in choosing a specialty and deciding in which part ...

Assessment of Field Training Programs in Graduates of Health Services Management in Ahwaz Jondishapour University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: Identifying the strengths, weaknesses and problems in field training is very important to achieve the educational goals in medical sciences universities. This study aims to assess field Training programs in graduates of Health Services Management in Ahwaz Jondishapour University of Medical Sciences. Methods: In this descriptive study, conducted in the first semester of 2009, the ...

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

Proposal for a unified selection to medical residency programs.

OBJECTIVE This paper proposes the unification of entrance exams to medical residency programs (MRP) in Brazil. Problems related to MRP and its interface with public health problems in Brazil are highlighted and how this proposal are able to help solving these problems. METHODS The proposal is to create a database to be applied in MRP unified exams. Some advantages of using the Item Response T...

Predicting performance using background characteristics of international medical graduates in an inner-city university-affiliated Internal Medicine residency training program

BACKGROUND IMGs constitute about a third of the United States (US) internal medicine graduates. US residency training programs face challenges in selection of IMGs with varied background features. However data on this topic is limited. We analyzed whether any pre-selection characteristics of IMG residents in our internal medicine program are associated with selected outcomes, namely competency ...