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International Medical Graduates — Working in a Two-Tier System?

In: Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Work

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  • Geraldine Healy
  • Franklin Oikelome

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We have argued elsewhere that career structures and their associated boundaries both offer and restrict career opportunities and provide the potential to be sites of unfair discrimination. Yet the impact of such structures is rarely explored (Oikelome and Healy, 2007: 134). In the case of doctors, the hierarchical nature of medical careers is known in the generality yet the complexity of such hierarchies within medicine is less well known (except to those involved in the profession). Such career structures are variously the product of the political system and the labour market context in which doctors practise. Moreover it is, as we shall show in this chapter, a product of where doctors qualified. As we have seen, doctors operate in an increasingly international labour market and in this chapter we seek to understand IMGs’ experience of work by drawing on comparative studies of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) with those doctors who qualified mainly in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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  • Geraldine Healy & Franklin Oikelome, 2011. "International Medical Graduates — Working in a Two-Tier System?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Work, chapter 5, pages 92-110, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-32147-2_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230321472_5
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