The Alternative Career Pathways for International Medical Graduates in Health and Wellness Sector

Chowdhury, Nashit; Ekpekurede, Mark; Lake, Deidre; Chowdhury, Turin Tanvir

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62249-7_18

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“…Our finding that IMGs are less likely to report that working with PAs improves their clinical practice extends this notion, since IMGs may lack familiarity with the PA role and the interprofessional work environment in the United States. 30 …”

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Physicians working with physician assistants and nurse practitioners: perceived effects on clinical practice

Hu,

Coplan,

Barnes

et al. 2024

Health Affairs Scholar

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Physicians in the United States are increasingly working with physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs), but little is known about how they perceive working with PAs and NPs affects their clinical practice. We used a new national survey to examine physicians’ perceptions of working with PAs and/or NPs on their patient volume, care quality, time use, and workload. Among our analytical sample of 5823 physicians, 59% reported working with PAs and/or NPs. Most reported that PAs and NPs positively affected their clinical practice. Among several findings, physicians working in medical schools and with higher incomes were more likely to indicate that PAs improve their clinical practices in all 4 aspects, while being in specialties with higher women's representation was associated with lower ratings for working with PAs. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander physicians and those with higher incomes were more likely to signify that NPs improved their clinical practices in all 4 aspects. These findings provide valuable insights, from the physicians’ perspective, on care delivery reform.

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Physicians working with physician assistants and nurse practitioners: perceived effects on clinical practice

Hu,

Coplan,

Barnes

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“…Further, another study reported that IEPs who opted to seek alternative careers expressed regret over not making that decision earlier [ 16 ]. This delay can deprive IEPs of time that may be required to study for the new position and obtain any required health-related work experience as well as increase family responsibilities and financial burdens, all of which ultimately lead to a loss of energy and lack of money to spend following their training and education to allow for a decent alternative career [ 23 , 24 ].…”

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Lost in Transition: The Need for a Strategic Approach to Facilitate Job Market Integration of Internationally Educated Physicians through Alternative Careers

Turin

Chowdhury

Lake

2022

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Skilled migration has been an important part of the socioeconomic development and progression of many industrialised Western countries. However, successful migration includes facilitating sociocultural and professional environments, policies, and practices in a way that utilizes the skills of migrants appropriately. Internationally educated physicians (IEPs) are an important part of the health and wellness care program of these countries. Nevertheless, because of regulations and limited available positions, many of these migrated physicians find they cannot enter into the healthcare workforce as practicing physicians. Utilizing their health-related knowledge and skills through nonphysician careers in health and wellness is a beneficial way to integrate these highly skilled professionals into a country’s socioeconomic flow. Despite the availability of alternative careers for IEPs, we identified that these paths are often not explored and facilitated, resulting in un/underemployment and wastage of these highly skilled human resources. A lack of willingness among IEPs, under/overestimation of their transferable skills by themselves and by potential employers, and a lack of strategic support and career guidance are prominent obstacles. A collaborative approach from multiple sectors, including academics, integration service providers, and policy makers, is needed to create awareness of these alternative opportunities and facilitation of the socioeconomic integration of IEPs.

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“…Alternative career pathways (ACPs) in health and wellness sector could be a significant viable option towards mitigating the employment problem of IMGs [ 10 ], which needs to be strategically planned. For this professional group, a suitable alternative career could be a job where they can use their health-related knowledge and technical skills.…”

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“…For this professional group, a suitable alternative career could be a job where they can use their health-related knowledge and technical skills. However, there is a lack of understanding, information, and organizational support on ACPs for IMGs [ 8 – 10 ]. Our program of research is built around the objective to identify and facilitate suitable alternative career pathways available for IMGs in Canada.…”

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Alternative career pathway decision-support job database for international medical graduates in Canada

Sikdar

Chowdhury²,

Lake³

et al. 2022

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Objectives Canadian regulations have made it challenging for the international medical graduates (IMGs) to get jobs in their original profession as physicians. Consequently, alternative careers are gaining interest among IMGs to avoid underemployment or unemployment. We conducted research to identify the factors that IMGs consider for taking up an alternative career in Canada. Based on those understandings, we aimed to create a database where information about health-related alternative jobs is presented in a searchable way, which can aid IMGs’ strategic job search. Data description We first determined job searching preferences and constraints for IMGs regarding alternative career through focus groups. We used their preferred and constraining factors for collecting job-specific information through systematically reviewing job advertisements. Using this information, we created a database that contains available alternative career pathways for IMGs living in Canada. In total, we have identified 1374 job titles under 192 unique job categories comprising 47 National Occupational Classification (NOC) codes that could be suitable for IMGs seeking an alternative career based on their own short, intermediate, and long-term career goals. We expect that this database will help IMGs in deciding on alternative careers.

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The Alternative Career Pathways for International Medical Graduates in Health and Wellness Sector

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References 31 publications

Physicians working with physician assistants and nurse practitioners: perceived effects on clinical practice

Physicians working with physician assistants and nurse practitioners: perceived effects on clinical practice

Lost in Transition: The Need for a Strategic Approach to Facilitate Job Market Integration of Internationally Educated Physicians through Alternative Careers

Alternative career pathway decision-support job database for international medical graduates in Canada

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