In Decker et al.'s 2009 study conducted in the province of Manitoba, primary care providers who were rural, male, or IMGs were less likely to provide cervical cancer screening 34.
Recently there has been significant controversy over evidence that IMGs perform less well than home graduates in several higher professional training examinations in the UK, USA and Canada [ 12- 145 46] 46].
As well, South Asian IMGs were significantly less likely to screen South Asian women for cervical cancer than IMGs from other regions of the world who were seeing region-congruent patients.
Although there may be differences in medical school curriculums around the world, with some schools putting less emphasis on prevention, many IMGs will have completed their residency training in Ontario 29.
For example, there is evidence to suggest that international medical graduates (IMGs) may be less likely to screen their patients for cancer than US- or Canadian-trained physicians, and that having a physician of the same ethnicity is associated with lower rates of cervical cancer screening 3, 21, 22.
Similarly, the reason why IMGs from certain regions are less likely to perform screening needs to be explored.
While this may affect external validity, we don't anticipate that non-respondent IMGs would be more satisfied, or less likely to serve Medicare and Medicaid patients.
A specific interest in certain specialities, such as Psychiatry, or a lack of a materialistic attitude seem less likely an explanations for the different behaviour of IMGs.
IMGs were just 13.4% of the CTS sample – less than their percentage in the overall family medicine workforce.
The tf-idf weighting indicates red circles in Img-A and purple triangles in Img-C are important, while blue crosses and green squares which appear among the two images are less important.
IMG could not be that naïve".
