Some guidelines for the training of foreign medical graduates: results of a special project.
Since over one-third of the psychiatric residency positions in the United states are filled by foreign medical graduates, there is a need to identify and correct both the emotional and cognitive problems of these medical trainees. To meet this need the authors describe the findings and recommendations that resulted from a project involving two psychiatrists from a southweast Asian country who were given a specially planned year of training in Hawaii.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005550:Foreign Medical Graduates / Q000193:education*; D006254:Hawaii; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D007396:Internship and Residency; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States