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Impact of accreditation on Caribbean medical schools’ processes

Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2021
Background: Caribbean graduates contribute significantly to the US healthcare workforce. The accreditation requirements of local governments vary from one Caribbean island to another island. The Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
Sateesh Babu Arja, Sireesha Bala Arja, Samir Fatteh, Krishna Teja Challa, Manoj Kumar Reddy Somagutta, Danielle Blouin   +5 more
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Canadian fellowship experience: the different challenges and emotions faced by an International Medical Graduate and mitigation strategies

Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2022
Acknowledging the mental remodeling that a foreign physician goes through and attempting to mitigate the difficulties of this process is crucial to achieving better outcomes in education and patient care.
Elio BR Belfiore, Fabricio Zasso, Filipe NC Santos   +2 more
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Supply, distribution and characteristics of international medical graduates in family medicine in the United States: a cross-sectional study

BMC Family Practice, 2019
Background To describe the supply, distribution, and characteristics of international medical graduates (IMGs) in family medicine who provide patient care in the U.S.
Robbert J. Duvivier, Elizabeth Wiley, John R. Boulet   +2 more
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Experience of training and certification in pediatric disciplines of students majoring in 222 “medicine” specialty

Zdorovʹe Rebenka, 2023
Certification of graduates of the Faculty of Medicine 2 of the National Medical University (NMU) in pediatric disciplines was conducted by the Department of Pediatrics 2 at the objective structured practical (clinical) exam 2 (OSP(C)E-2) station “Initial
O.P. Volosovets, O.M. Naumenko, R.S. Tsymbaliuk, S.P. Kryvopustov, N.V. Grischenko, O.V. Mozyrska, I.O. Loginova, T.I. Shevtsova, O.F. Chernii, S.D. Saltanova, O.L. Kovalchuk, M.V. Kryvopustova   +11 more
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What Impact will the Changes Announced in USMLE have on Successful Matching of International Medical Graduates in Residency Programs in the United States?

Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences, 2020
All international medical graduates intending to join an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited clinical residency programs must obtain certification from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.
Sohail Rao, Rameez S Rao
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Professional experiences in the transition of Cuban-trained South African medical graduates

South African Family Practice, 2021
Background: Medical educators have been tasked to provide Cuban-trained Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs) with adequate learning exposures to become integrated into the South African healthcare workforce.
Munirah Motala, Jacqueline M. van Wyk
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Evaluation of a course to prepare international students for the United States Medical Licensing Examination step 2 clinical skills exam [PDF]

Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2017
Purpose United States (US) and Canadian citizens attending medical school abroad often desire to return to the US for residency, and therefore must pass US licensing exams.
Rachel B. Levine, Andrew P. Levy, Robert Lubin, Sarah Halevi, Rebeca Rios, Danelle Cayea   +5 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
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Retention of visa-trainee post-graduate residents in Canada: a retrospective cohort study

Human Resources for Health, 2021
Background Visa trainees (international medical graduates [IMG] who train in Canada under a student or employment visa) are expected to return home after completing their training.
Maria Mathews, Dania Koudieh, Yanqing Yi, Lindsay Hedden, Emily Gard Marshall, Asoka Samarasena, Geoff Barnum, Ivy Bourgeault   +7 more
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When policy meets reality: the new 18-hour on-call shift policy and the Israeli anesthesia workforce crisis

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2023
Background The Israeli physician workforce faces multiple challenges. These include planned policies reducing physician on-call from 26 to 18 h and, from 2026, allowing only graduates of Ministry of Health approved foreign medical schools to take the ...
Ariel Wimpfheimer, Charles Weissman, Shai Fein, Yehuda Ginosar, The Israel Anesthesiology Workforce Study Group   +4 more
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