Foreign Medical Graduates
"Foreign Medical Graduates" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Physicians who hold degrees from medical schools in countries other than the ones in which they practice.
| Descriptor ID |
D005550
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.526.407.435 M01.526.485.810.390 N02.360.810.390
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| Concept/Terms |
Foreign Medical Graduates- Foreign Medical Graduates
- Graduate, Foreign Medical
- Medical Graduate, Foreign
- Medical Graduates, Foreign
- Foreign Medical Graduate
- Graduates, Foreign Medical
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2017 | 13 | 2 | 15 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Foreign Medical Graduates" by people in Profiles.
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African Physician Migration to High-Income Nations: Diverse Motives to Emigrate ("We Are not Florence Nightingale") or Stay in Africa ("There Is No Place Like Home") Comment on "Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the Battle". Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021 10 01; 10(10):660-663.
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A Wasted Opportunity During a Pandemic: The Foreign Medical Graduates in the USA. J Immigr Minor Health. 2021 Dec; 23(6):1364-1368.
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A project report on the switch from in-class to online tuition in the preparatory course for the knowledge examination for foreign physicians - guidelines for the organization of the online summer semester 2020 at the faculty of medicine of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität of Münster. GMS J Med Educ. 2021; 38(5):Doc88.
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New Ways to Support the Recruitment of International Medical Graduates During the Pandemic. Acad Med. 2021 05 01; 96(5):616.
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COVID-19 and doctor emigration: the case of Ireland. Hum Resour Health. 2021 03 03; 19(1):29.
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International Medical Graduates: Promoting Equity and Belonging. Acad Med. 2020 12; 95(12S Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments):S82-S87.
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The role of virtual sub-internships in influencing career perceptions: an international medical graduate perspective. Med Educ Online. 2020 Dec; 25(1):1821463.
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Presidential Address: Perseverance through the pandemic and beyond. Vasc Med. 2020 12; 25(6):608-611.
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Facilitating credentialing and engagement of international physician-migrants during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. Rural Remote Health. 2020 09; 20(3):6027.
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Letter to the Editor: Lessons to Learn from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic for International Medical Graduate Applicants and United States Neurosurgery Residency Programs. World Neurosurg. 2020 09; 141:571-572.