Roles were generally stereotyped, with stock characters, such as a dandy, the foreign physician, and regional types (Kurds, Albanians, Armenians, Arabs, and Jews) quarreling and fighting in slapstick style.
When submitting an NDVS request for a foreign physician to OIA, please include the 5-point letter, signed and dated by the faculty supervisor.
The qualitative interviews allowed the identification of specific typologies of physicians dedicated exclusively to private practice: the NGO worker, the foreign physician with minimum links with national health authorities, and the senior physician who left the national health system; the latter was the dominant type in Bissau and Maputo.
A closer investigation of foreign physician distribution also showed that the claim that these can be used indiscriminately to fill geographical gaps is somewhat inaccurate, as rural residence patterns appeared to vary considerably among nationality groups, with PALOP physicians concentrating in metropolitan areas even more than their national peers.
A Guatemalan surgeon who works in a private clinic as well as a national hospital poignantly stated: Guatemalan patients, especially those with less education, tend to put more faith in a blonde haired, blue eyed, white skinned foreign physician than their own Guatemalan physicians.
These data show that developing countries are just one, but not necessarily the main source of international recruitment of physicians by OECD countries: a large contribution to the foreign physician workforce of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway and Switzerland originated from another European country.
American and foreign physicians flocked to the Brigham to observe and to work with him.
For decades, doctors here have found that their solid medical training has prepared them to pass tests for foreign physicians in the West.
To the Editor: I have spent the last decade as a supervising attending physician at a community teaching hospital that trains mostly foreign physicians.
The counterargument for making it easier for foreign physicians to practice in the United States — aside from concerns about quality controls — is that doing so will draw more physicians from poor countries.
Additionally, we would recommend that US EM professional organizations continue to offer, and increase when possible, scholarships and grants for foreign physicians to rotate in US hospitals.
