Alternative career pathway decision-support job database for international medical graduates in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Canadian regulations have made it challenging for the international medical graduates (IMGs) to get jobs in their original profession as physicians. Consequently, alternative careers are gaining interest among IMGs to avoid underemployment or unemployment. We conducted research to identify the factors that IMGs consider for taking up an alternative career in Canada. Based on those understandings, we aimed to create a database where information about health-related alternative jobs is presented in a searchable way, which can aid IMGs' strategic job search.

Data description

We first determined job searching preferences and constraints for IMGs regarding alternative career through focus groups. We used their preferred and constraining factors for collecting job-speci

SUBMITTER: Sikdar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9617379 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature