An overview of the world's medical schools

J Boulet, C Bede, D Mckinley, J Norcini - Medical Teacher, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Background: In the past several years, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of
medical schools. Presently, there are over 1,900 operating medical schools in the world …

The international medical graduate pipeline: recent trends in certification and residency training

JR Boulet, JJ Norcini, GP Whelan, JA Hallock… - Health …, 2006 - healthaffairs.org
International medical graduates (IMGs) represent a large proportion of the population
entering graduate medical education (GME) programs. Many of these internationally trained …

International medical education and future directions: a global perspective

RM Harden - Academic medicine, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Internationalization, one of the most important forces in higher education today, presents a
powerful challenge and an opportunity for medical schools. Factors encouraging …

Quality of care delivered by general internists in US hospitals who graduated from foreign versus US medical schools: observational study

Y Tsugawa, AB Jena, EJ Orav, AK Jha - bmj, 2017 - bmj.com
Objective To determine whether patient outcomes differ between general internists who
graduated from a medical school outside the United States and those who graduated from a …

International medical graduates in the US physician workforce and graduate medical education: current and historical trends

AA Ahmed, WT Hwang… - Journal of graduate …, 2018 - meridian.allenpress.com
Background Data show that international medical graduates (IMGs), both US and foreign
born, are more likely to enter primary care specialties and practice in underserved areas …

A comparison of physician emigration from Africa to the United States of America between 2005 and 2015

RJ Duvivier, VC Burch, JR Boulet - Human resources for health, 2017 - Springer
Background Migration of health professionals has been a cause for global concern, in
particular migration from African countries with a high disease burden and already fragile …

The international migration of health professionals

M Grignon, Y Owusu, A Sweetman - International Handbook on the …, 2013 - elgaronline.com
International migration by health professionals is an area of increasing policy interest.
Shortages of medical personnel in several developed countries are perceived to be central …

Analyzing international medical graduate research productivity for application to US neurosurgery residency and beyond: a survey of applicants, program directors …

G Mignucci-Jiménez, Y Xu, LM Houlihan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background The authors investigated perceived discrepancies between the neurosurgical
research productivity of international medical graduates (IMGs) and US medical graduates …

The regional geography of new young graduate labour in the UK

A Hoare, M Corver - Regional Studies, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract H oare A. and C orver M. The regional geography of new young graduate labour in
the UK, Regional Studies. Using a newly constructed database of UK undergraduates' …

Moving beyond orientations: a multiple case study of the residency experiences of Canadian-born and immigrant international medical graduates

U Najeeb, B Wong, E Hollenberg, L Stroud… - Advances in Health …, 2019 - Springer
Many international medical graduates (IMGs) enter North American residency programs
every year. The Canadian IMG physician pool increasingly includes Canadian-born IMGs (C …