ReviewHuman resources for health2021
Professional integration of immigrant medical professionals through alternative career pathways: an Internet scan to synthesize the current landscape.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Who considers alternative employment pathways among International Medical Graduates in Canada?PloS one · 2026Article
- Facilitators, barriers, and priorities for enhancing primary care recruitment and retention in Saskatchewan, Canada.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- International medical graduates as untapped resource for community health and wellness.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Conceptualising community engagement as an infinite game implemented through finite games of 'research', 'community organising' and 'knowledge mobilisation'.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023Article
- Choosing Alternative Career Pathways after Immigration: Aspects Internationally Educated Physicians Consider when Narrowing down Non-Physician Career Choices.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Alternative Careers toward Job Market Integration: Barriers Faced by International Medical Graduates in Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Alternative career pathway decision-support job database for international medical graduates in Canada.BMC research notes · 2022Article
- Labor Market Integration of High-Skilled Immigrants in Canada: Employment Patterns of International Medical Graduates in Alternative Jobs.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Lost in Transition: The Need for a Strategic Approach to Facilitate Job Market Integration of Internationally Educated Physicians through Alternative Careers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Partnering with organisations beyond academia through strategic collaboration for research and mobilisation in immigrant/ethnic-minority communities.BMJ global health · 2022Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a growing recognition that underutilization and underemployment of skilled immigrants, especially internationally trained health professionals, creates a financial burden on individuals and economic losses for the host country. Albeit a missed opportunity for both the immigrants and the receiving country, no public policy and systemic measures are in place to address this issue. Nevertheless, certain individuals and organizations have made some isolated efforts, but no synthesized knowledge is available for understanding what initiatives exist altogether and how they function. We have conducted a methodological Internet scan to identify the existing individual, private, and systemic initiatives and resources that support these health professionals. This will provide health and workforce policymakers, settlement service providers, and relevant academics with the knowledge base for potential different strategies to address this issue and guide them towards developing solution-oriented initiatives.
methodsTo identify those we have systematically searched the three most popular search engines (Google, Bing, and Yahoo!) adapting the Canadian Institute for Health Information's grey literature review protocol. We identified relevant websites per our predefined inclusion criteria, charted the data from those sources, collated, summarized, and reported the results.
resultsFrom 280 webpages initially identified through keyword search, we included 26 in our full-page screen and extracted data from 16 finally selected webpages. We have found webpages with information on different alternative careers namely, regulated and non-regulated, available resources to pursue those careers, and what skills they have that can be transferred to the alternative careers.
conclusionMore systemic policies and IMG specific and ACP-focused employment support programmes are required. Research and development of programmes for facilitating IMGs' alternative career support need to be increased and strengthened.
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