International medical graduates: Learning for practice in Alberta, Canada

Abstract

Settling into Alberta, Canada, physicians accommodated and adjusted to their settings with learning activities related to the clinical problems and situations that presented themselves. Collegial support in host communities appeared to be a critical dimension in how well physicians adjusted. The results suggest that mentoring programs may be a way of facilitating settlement.

Mentorship for the physician recruited from abroad to Canada for rural practice

“…The setting is unique (Lockyer et al 2007;Klein et al 2009). The rural communities are small and may only have 2-4 other physicians.…”

“…system expectations (Lockyer et al 2007). The ways that the people earn their living and spend their leisure time are different (Klein et al 2009).…”

“…The need for mentorship for physicians who have immigrated to Canada to enter practice has been identified (Lockyer et al 2007;Curran et al 2008). These physicians have described the special challenges of entering practice at both the personal and professional level including the need to understand the health care system; patient expectations; new approaches to referral and investigation procedures; different medications; and the management of chronic diseases, perinatal care, and elderly people (Lockyer et al 2007;Curran et al 2008;Klein et al 2009).…”

“…These physicians have described the special challenges of entering practice at both the personal and professional level including the need to understand the health care system; patient expectations; new approaches to referral and investigation procedures; different medications; and the management of chronic diseases, perinatal care, and elderly people (Lockyer et al 2007;Curran et al 2008;Klein et al 2009). One Canadian province has developed a mentoring program for physicians who are recent immigrants to Canada but practicing under the direction of an established family physician.…”

Improve and Develop Quality Ways of Teaching and Learning in Medical Education

“…In addition, some local Saudi academic and health institutes have indicated that the many allied health graduates face a lot of difficulties and challenges to pass an interviews and written exam for their seeks job application. These facts have encouraged our local Saudi academic medical institutes to go through local and international accreditation programs to enable them to develop and enhance the quality of their education system (11,12) and training methodology (13,14,15) , to reduce the factors and number of program failures. And to insure that their graduates are will be capable to work successfully in all different challenged and success in their medical practice and future carriers development training programs (16,17) .…”