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Challenges Facing International Medical Graduate Trainees in General Practice and Solutions Founded on Educational Praxis

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Objectives
Primary care in the United Kingdom is delivered through the National Health Service medical workforce comprising 25% international medical graduates.Thisstudyexploredthechallengesexperiencedby international participants as they progressed through specialty training in General Practice and sought solutions to those challenges through the lens of applied educational theory, or ‘praxis’.

Methods
The case-based methodology was founded on a qualitative paradigm and postpositivist theoretical framework. Data werecollected from international medical graduates and General Practice Trainers via focus groups,on-line questionnaireandsemi-structuredinterviews.A strategyofconvergenceofevidenceunderpinnedthematicdata analysis, triangulating datato construct theorythrough cycles of continuous iteration.

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An approach for solutions to the challenges for international medical graduates that moves away from language and culture and encompasses a multiplicity of subthemes.

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Contributed by: WE-R NHS (Workforce and Education Research NHS)
Authored by: Stuart Anthony Holloway
Linda Jones
Authored on: 21 May 2021
Licence: Creative commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International More information on licences
Last updated: 30 April 2024
First contributed: 19 July 2023
Audience access level: General user

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