The Right Doctor for the Job

International Medical Graduates Negotiating Pathways to Employment in Australia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12967931
AutoresAnna Harris (0000-0001-5006-2136, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente), M Guillemin (0000-0002-9739-3175, The University of Melbourne)
Ano2020
Volume20
Fascículo1
Páginas5-5
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiversité urbaine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1913-0694 • E-ISSN: 1913-0708
EditoraConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/1084960ar
OpenAlexW4205909621
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas20

Skilled medical migrants must negotiate complex pathways to local employment in their new home countries. Accreditation and registration systems are promoted as standardized assessments of competence. To date, literature on this topic has tended to focus on organizational, political, economic and ethical issues, rather than how individuals encounter and subsequently negotiate employment pathways. We help address this gap by drawing on ethnographic interviews with migrant doctors studying and working in Australia. We find that negotiating employment pathways is a process entailing significant financial, personal, professional and emotional investment on the doctors’ behalf. We discuss the creativity and social and emotional labour entailed and the consequences of this on what it means to be a healthcare professional in the midst of increasing global worker mobility

Accreditation · Competence (human resources · Creativity · Ethnography · Health care · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Global Health Workforce Issues · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology