International medical graduates in child and adolescent psychiatry: adaptation, training, and contributions.
This article reviews, consolidates, and enhances current knowledge about the issues and problems child and adolescent psychiatry international medical graduates face. Their training, work force issues, and establishment and advancement of professional identity are presented. Acculturation and immigration dynamics include facing prejudice and discrimination, social mirroring, and difficulties with language. Treatment issues are discussed with a special focus on therapeutic alliance, resistance, transference, countertransference, and child rearing practices. Recommendations for training and future goals are considered.
Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/UMDNJ, Piscataway, NJ, USA. rgoginenimd@yahoo.com
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Gogineni
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Nyapati R
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D000069:Acculturation; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000941:ethics; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005550:Foreign Medical Graduates / Q000941:ethics / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education / Q000941:ethics; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012944:Social Support; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States