Soma Ashok, Myatt Mathew, McKenna Mario, Ganesa Soma, Leung Ka Wai
St. George's University, New York, US.
Alliston Family Health Team, Ontario, Canada.
Can Med Educ J. 2017 Feb 24;8(1):e52-e58. eCollection 2017 Feb.
Although international medical graduates (IMGs) are essential in health care service delivery, a gap exists in the literature about how IMGs are selected into psychiatry residency programs in Canada. The purpose of this study was to identify the relative weight or importance that Canadian program directors (PDs) of psychiatry place on certain selection criteria when matching IMGs into residency programs.
We electronically distributed a web-based questionnaire to 16 university residency program directors of psychiatry in Canada. Program Directors were asked to rate the importance of 43 selection criteria using 5-point Likert Scales. Criteria were grouped into six domains: academic criteria, extracurricular activities, supporting information, behavioural issues of concern, medical school country, and other education. Mean total values for each set of criteria were calculated and used to create rank orders within each domain.
Eight out of 16 program directors responded. Our analysis indicated that academics and behavioral issues of concern were the most important selection criteria.
Our findings provide valuable insight about the perspectives of Program Directors toward IMGs who apply for psychiatry residency programs in Canada. Further studies are needed to better understand which criteria contribute to IMGs' performances as psychiatric residents.
尽管国际医学毕业生（IMGs）在医疗服务提供中至关重要，但关于加拿大如何选拔IMGs进入精神病学住院医师培训项目的文献存在空白。本研究的目的是确定加拿大精神病学项目主任（PDs）在将IMGs匹配到住院医师培训项目时，对某些选拔标准所赋予的相对权重或重要性。
我们以电子方式向加拿大16所大学的精神病学住院医师培训项目主任分发了一份基于网络的问卷。要求项目主任使用5点李克特量表对43项选拔标准的重要性进行评分。标准分为六个领域：学术标准、课外活动、支持信息、关注的行为问题、医学院所在国家和其他教育经历。计算每组标准的平均总值，并用于在每个领域内创建排名顺序。
16名项目主任中有8人回复。我们的分析表明，学术标准和关注的行为问题是最重要的选拔标准。
我们的研究结果为项目主任对申请加拿大精神病学住院医师培训项目的IMGs的看法提供了有价值的见解。需要进一步研究以更好地理解哪些标准有助于IMGs作为精神病学住院医师的表现。
