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Acknowledging the mental remodeling that a foreign physician goes through and attempting to mitigate the difficulties of this process is crucial to achieving better outcomes in education and patient care. Canada's Healthcare System offers Clinical Fellowship Programs that allow physicians specialists to obtain advanced expertise in a chosen subspecialty. In a Clinical Fellowship, Canadian Medical Graduates (CMGs) practice alongside International Medical Graduates (IMGs); however, there is evidence that they undergo different challenges in the learning experience. IMGs usually have a higher cognitive load during the adaptation period, which can be due to multiple factors, such as the transition to practice in a foreign country, language, level of supervision, teaching methods applied, feeling disconnected from home, and other competing needs fellows face outside of the clinical context. We propose strategies that may help mitigate the transition to practice process that IMGs undergo when starting a Canadian fellowship, such as Self-Efficacy Encouraging Approach, Thinking Framework Across Cultures, and Social Engagement and Wellbeing.
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Les médecins étrangers sont confrontés à un processus de remodelage cognitif.La reconnaissance de cette adaptation est cruciale pour l’atteinte de meilleurs résultats sur le plan de la formation et sur celui des soins aux patients. Le système de santé canadien offre des programmes de fellowship (ou formation complémentaire) de type clinique qui permettent à des médecins spécialistes d’acquérir une expertise plus poussée dans la sur-spécialité de leur choix. Dans les fellowships de type clinique, les diplômés des facultés de médecine canadiennes (DMC) exercent aux côtés de diplômés issus de programme de médecine internationaux (DIM). Cependant, il a été démontré que ces derniers sont confrontés à des défis particuliers dans leur expérience d’apprentissage. Pendant la période d’adaptation, les DIM ont généralement une charge cognitive plus importante, qui peut être due à de multiples facteurs tels que la transition vers la pratique dans un pays étranger, la langue, le niveau de supervision, les méthodes d’enseignement appliquées, le fait de sentir éloigné de chez soi, mais également à des facteurs présents à l’extérieur du contexte clinique.. Nous propo-sons des stratégies qui peuvent contribuer à atténuer les difficultés auxquelles sont confrontés les fellows DIM qui débutent un programme au Canada notamment une approche de soutien à l’auto-efficacité, la perspective transculturelle et l’interaction sociale et le bien-être.
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