Characteristics of US-Licensed Foreign-Educated Physical Therapists

Cornwall, Mark; Keehn, Mary; Lane, Mark A.

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“…Although scarcely studied, international migration appears to aggravate global inequalities: in the United States of America (USA), foreign-educated, recently licensed PTs came predominantly from the Philippines and India [66]. Singapore partly reduces shortages of rehabilitation workers by recruiting in resource-poorer Asian countries [25].…”

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Human resources for health (and rehabilitation): Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges for the century

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BackgroundPeople with disabilities face challenges accessing basic rehabilitation health care. In 2006, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) outlined the global necessity to meet the rehabilitation needs of people with disabilities, but this goal is often challenged by the undersupply and inequitable distribution of rehabilitation workers. While the aggregate study and monitoring of the physical rehabilitation workforce has been mostly ignored by researchers or policy-makers, this paper aims to present the ‘challenges and opportunities’ for guiding further long-term research and policies on developing the relatively neglected, highly heterogeneous physical rehabilitation workforce.MethodsThe challenges were identified through a two-phased investigation. Phase 1: critical review of the rehabilitation workforce literature, organized by the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality (AAAQ) framework. Phase 2: integrate reviewed data into a SWOT framework to identify the strengths and opportunities to be maximized and the weaknesses and threats to be overcome.ResultsThe critical review and SWOT analysis have identified the following global situation: (i) needs-based shortages and lack of access to rehabilitation workers, particularly in lower income countries and in rural/remote areas; (ii) deficiencies in the data sources and monitoring structures; and (iii) few exemplary innovations, of both national and international scope, that may help reduce supply-side shortages in underserved areas.DiscussionBased on the results, we have prioritized the following ‘Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges’: (1) monitoring supply requirements: accounting for rehabilitation needs and demand; (2) supply data sources: the need for structural improvements; (3) ensuring the study of a whole rehabilitation workforce (i.e. not focused on single professions), including across service levels; (4) staffing underserved locations: the rising of education, attractiveness and tele-service; (5) adapt policy options to different contexts (e.g. rural vs urban), even within a country; and (6) develop international solutions, within an interdependent world.ConclusionsConcrete examples of feasible local, global and research action toward meeting the Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges are provided. Altogether, these may help advance a policy and research agenda for ensuring that an adequate rehabilitation workforce can meet the current and future rehabilitation health needs.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12960-017-0182-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…The authors could have compared the results of their study to the results of Cornwall et al, 2016 study that evaluated the characteristics of foreign‐trained physiotherapists who migrated to the United States. In Cornwall et al, 2016 study, only 18.6% of the physiotherapists who were trained in India felt that their initial education was short or far short of what was needed to practice in the United States compared with 20% Canadians.…”

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On “A grounded theory study of the narrative behind Indian physiotherapists global migration” Grafton K., Gordon F. Int J Health Plann Manage. 2019 Jan 18. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2725. [Epub ahead of print]

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2019

Health Planning & Management

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Physical Therapists' Ethical Dilemmas in Treatment, Coding, and Billing for Rehabilitation Services in Skilled Nursing Facilities: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study

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2019

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

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Characteristics of US-Licensed Foreign-Educated Physical Therapists

Abstract: This study is the first to report on foreign-educated physical therapists in the United States. The findings of this study will provide important and useful information to others dealing with physical therapy professional and workforce issues.

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Human resources for health (and rehabilitation): Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges for the century

Human resources for health (and rehabilitation): Six Rehab-Workforce Challenges for the century

On “A grounded theory study of the narrative behind Indian physiotherapists global migration” Grafton K., Gordon F. Int J Health Plann Manage. 2019 Jan 18. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2725. [Epub ahead of print]

Physical Therapists' Ethical Dilemmas in Treatment, Coding, and Billing for Rehabilitation Services in Skilled Nursing Facilities: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study

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