Training international medical graduate clinical fellows: the challenges and opportunities for adolescent medicine programs
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Eudice Goldberg
Abstract
Adolescent medicine achieved accreditation status first in the United States in 1994 and then in Canada in 2008 and even if it is not an accredited subspecialty in most other Western nations, it has still become firmly established as a distinct discipline. This has not necessarily been the case in some developing countries, where even the recognition of adolescence as a unique stage of human development is not always acknowledged. The program at SickKids in Toronto has prided itself in treating its international medical graduates (IMG) clinical fellows the same as their Canadian subspecialty residents by integrating them seamlessly into the training program. Although this approach has been laudable to a great extent, it may have fallen short in formally acknowledging and addressing the challenges that the IMG trainees have had to overcome. Moving forward, faculty must be trained and supports instituted that are geared specifically towards these challenges. This must be done on a formal basis to ensure both the success of the trainees as well as the overall enrichment of the fellowship training programs.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorials
- Adolescent health and medicine: a global perspective on training adolescent health professionals
- Adolescent medicine and health: a good investment
- Reviews
- The status of adolescent medicine: building a global adolescent workforce
- Accreditation of Adolescent Medicine as a pediatric sub-specialty: the Canadian experience and lessons learned
- Adolescent and young adult medicine in Australia and New Zealand: towards specialist accreditation
- The foundations of interdisciplinary fellowship training in adolescent medicine in the United States
- A different training model for adolescent medicine: a PhD program in Turkey, where adolescent medicine is not currently a sub-specialty at this stage
- LEAH interdisciplinary training program
- The globalization of training in adolescent health and medicine: one size does not fit all
- Opportunities and challenges in adolescent health training abroad: trainees’ experience and perspective
- Training international medical graduate clinical fellows: the challenges and opportunities for adolescent medicine programs
- Adolescent health in South America
- Adolescent health care education and training: insights from Israel
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from Singapore
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from Thailand
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from India
- Adolescent health in the Caribbean region: insights from the Jamaican experience
- The health of Swiss adolescents and its implications for training of health professionals in Switzerland
- The role of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine in training of health professionals
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorials
- Adolescent health and medicine: a global perspective on training adolescent health professionals
- Adolescent medicine and health: a good investment
- Reviews
- The status of adolescent medicine: building a global adolescent workforce
- Accreditation of Adolescent Medicine as a pediatric sub-specialty: the Canadian experience and lessons learned
- Adolescent and young adult medicine in Australia and New Zealand: towards specialist accreditation
- The foundations of interdisciplinary fellowship training in adolescent medicine in the United States
- A different training model for adolescent medicine: a PhD program in Turkey, where adolescent medicine is not currently a sub-specialty at this stage
- LEAH interdisciplinary training program
- The globalization of training in adolescent health and medicine: one size does not fit all
- Opportunities and challenges in adolescent health training abroad: trainees’ experience and perspective
- Training international medical graduate clinical fellows: the challenges and opportunities for adolescent medicine programs
- Adolescent health in South America
- Adolescent health care education and training: insights from Israel
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from Singapore
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from Thailand
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from India
- Adolescent health in the Caribbean region: insights from the Jamaican experience
- The health of Swiss adolescents and its implications for training of health professionals in Switzerland
- The role of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine in training of health professionals
