Refugee Doctors in the UK

There are several journal articles in the IngentaConnect database that focus on refugee doctors in the UK for which the full-text is made available on a complimentary basis. The most recent is:
- "Re-training refugee and other overseas doctors: re-qualification through the United Examining Board examination," by Eastwood, John B. et al., Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, Volume 6, Number 1, January/February 2006, pp. 51-56(6) [text]

[Note: As of April 5, the a/m text is no longer available free of charge. The policy of the Royal College of Physicians is that free access to issues of Clinical Medicine kicks in after a year. The temporary free access to the current edition must have been an oversight on the part of Ingenta.]

Earlier articles include:
- "'… a stranger in a strange land': The plight of refugee doctors in the UK," by Trewby, Peter N., Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, Volume 5, Number 4, July/August 2005, pp. 317-319(3) [text]

- "Refugee doctors," by Bishop, M. and A. Appelbaum, Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Volume 86, Number 6, 1 June 2004, pp. 199-199(1) [text]

The National Health Service recently prepared a toolkit to support refugee health professionals that have settled in the UK.

Other organizations in the UK have mandates to assist refugee academics and refugees with professional qualifications, or to re-train refugees.

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