ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2014
Two wings and a prayer: should Canada make it easier for Canadian doctors trained abroad to enter practice here?
Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- Physician workforce planning and boom-bust economic cycles: a retrospective on the Barer-Stoddart report.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023Article
- Choices of Specialties and Training Sites among Taiwanese Physicians Graduating from Polish Medical Schools.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Canadians studying medicine abroad and their journey to secure postgraduate training in Canada or the United States.Canadian medical education journal · 2020Article
- Lessons from across the pond: Student perspectives on the Internal Medicine clerkship experience at an Irish and Canadian medical school.MedEdPublish (2016) · 2020Article
- "They don't have the history and the stature:" examining perceptions of Caribbean offshore medical schools held by Canadian medical education stakeholders.Canadian medical education journal · 2018Article
- "We have been forced to move away from home": print news coverage of Canadians studying abroad at Caribbean offshore medical schools.BMC medical education · 2017Article
- "Location is surprisingly a lot more important than you think": a critical thematic analysis of push and pull factor messaging used on Caribbean offshore medical school websites.BMC medical education · 2017Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
About 3,600 Canadians are currently studying medicine abroad (CSMAs). Most hope to return to practise in Canada. But the road back is not easy. These graduates must complete postgraduate residency training in Canada and alas, there are less openings than there are aspirants. One might have thought, amid the endless rhetoric of "physician shortages," that an obvious solution would be to increase the number of residency positions. But provincial governments are well aware, even if the media are not, that Canada is in the early stages of a dramatic expansion in physician supply fuelled by increased domestic training capacity. Last time the physician supply outpaced population growth, as it is doing today, governments choked off the entry of international graduates. It could happen again.
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