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Prevalence of US-trained International Medical Graduates (IMG) physicians awaiting permanent residency: a quantitative analysis

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2020
Background International Medical Graduates (IMGs) contribute to about 23% of the physician workforce in the USA. Certain US-trained IMGs face long wait times for transitioning to a permanent resident status, which limits their ability to work to fullest ...
Kiran Koushik Nagarajan, Atul Bali, Srikrishna Varun Malayala, Ramesh Adhikari   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transitioning from physician to nurse practitioner [PDF]

, 2014
Foreign-educated physicians (FEPs), also known as “international medical graduates”, represent a rich source of potential primary-care providers. Despite their high level of medical knowledge and skills as well as ethnic and cultural diversity suited to ...
Flowers, Monica, Olenick, Maria
core   +1 more source

Family medicine training in Sub-Saharan Africa : South-South cooperation in the Primafamed project as strategy for development [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND. Health-care systems based on primary health care (PHC) are more equitable and cost effective. Family medicine trains medical doctors in comprehensive PHC with knowledge and skills that are needed to increase quality of care.
Ayankogbe, Olayinka, Chege, Patrick, De Maeseneer, Jan, Essuman, Akye, Flinkenflögel, Maaike   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Superhuman? Perceptions of accelerated students and graduates working in health care [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Accelerated university courses were developed in response to consumer demand and educational advances, yet a lack of research exists related to the impact of accelerated health care courses in the United Kingdom.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Bentley, Blythe, Caldwell, Cangelosi, Cangelosi, Cangelosi, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Craik, Glasgow Caledonian University, Grounds, Halkett, Health Professions Council, Howkins, Husson, James Milligan, Kasworm, Kohn, Meyer, Miklancie, Neill, Neill, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Oermann, Ouellet, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, Scott, Seifert, Seldomridge, Smith, Stewart, Swenson, Traub, Wilcock, Wilkinson, Wlodkowski, Wu, Youssef   +38 more
core   +1 more source

Pioglitazone plus (−)‐epigallocatechin gallate: a novel approach to enhance osteogenic performance in aged bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Aged human bmMSCs are seeded in the scaffold. Osteoblastic induction can slightly increase cell's bone‐forming activity to produce bone‐like tissues, shown as the sporadic xylenol orange‐stained spots (the lower left image). Notably, pioglitazone plus EGCG co‐treatment dramatically increases cell's bone‐forming activity and bone‐like tissue production (
Ching‐Yun Chen, Jia‐Ci Jhang, Chun‐Yi Peng, Quốc Cường Nguyễn, Feng‐Huei Lin, Hung‐Ming Wu, Shankung Lin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

“We have been forced to move away from home”: print news coverage of Canadians studying abroad at Caribbean offshore medical schools

BMC Medical Education, 2017
Background Canadian international medical graduates are Canadian-citizens who have graduated from a medical school outside of Canada or the United States.
Jeffrey Morgan, Valorie A. Crooks, Jeremy Snyder   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medical school origins of award-winning surgeons; analysis of a complete national dataset

BMC Medical Education, 2023
Background Britain attracts doctors from all over the world to work in the National Health Service. Elucidating the educational backgrounds of award-winning doctors working in the country is potentially an important medical education issue and merit ...
S. Steele, G. Andrade, N. Sambandan
doaj   +1 more source

Deep Learning–Assisted Differentiation of Four Peripheral Neuropathies Using Corneal Confocal Microscopy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Peripheral neuropathies contribute to patient disability but may be diagnosed late or missed altogether due to late referral, limitation of current diagnostic methods and lack of specialized testing facilities. To address this clinical gap, we developed NeuropathAI, an interpretable deep learning–based multiclass classification ...
Chaima Ben Rabah, Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Mark Stettner, Maryam Ferdousi, Uazman Alam, Nathan Efron, Ahmed Serag, Rayaz A. Malik   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Posterior Cortical Atrophy in the Asia‐Pacific: A Report From the PCA Asian Workgroup

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) is a distinct dementia syndrome primarily affecting spatial abilities and visual processing. It is associated with degeneration in the posterior part of the brain. PCA is subclassified into PCA‐pure and PCA‐plus syndromes based on consensus criteria.
Yuttachai Likitjaroen, Ya‐Ting Chang, Levinia Lim, Pai‐Yi Chiu, Jung‐Lung Hsu, SangYun Kim, Wataru Narita, Na Young Ryoo, Kyoko Suzuki, Nagaendran Kandiah, Sebastian Crutch, Ming‐Chyi Pai   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived causes of differential attainment in UK postgraduate medical training: a national qualitative study [PDF]

, 2016
Objectives: Explore trainee doctors’ experiences of postgraduate training and perceptions of fairness in relation to ethnicity and country of primary medical qualification.
Griffin, A, Needleman, S, Rich, A, Viney, R, Woolf, KVM   +4 more
core   +2 more sources