title: Improving the professional self-efficacy cognitions of immigrant doctors with Balint groups.
abstract: Immigrant doctors have been found to exhibit professional distress, especially if they are retrained to another medical specialty. This study looks at the effects of a long-term Balint group in increasing professional self-efficacy cognitions of immigrant physicians treating drug addicts in a home-based community program in their adopted homeland. Results of the group showed positive significant changes in specific self-efficacy cognitions related to treatment of drug addicts in the community, and an increase in psychosocial self-efficacy from baseline to three other assessment points. The importance of long-term Balint groups with doctors in general and with retraining immigrant doctors in particular is also carefully elucidated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rabin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Herz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stern
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vaserfirer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Belakovsky
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mark
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ribak
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005550:Foreign Medical Graduates / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007557:Israel; D010819:Physician's Role; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012649:Self Concept; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014586:USSR / Q000208:ethnology