The gender dimensions of Canadian policies and programs for integrating internationally educated health-care professionals /

Director Introduction The issue of the integration of internationally educated health care professionals has become a very salient topic in the past few years in the Canadian political and public arena. [...] By analyzing policy documents and interviews with provincial and federal stakeholders involved in the integration of IEHPs, we show (1) how gender education differs in the professional re-socialization of immigrants in medicine, nursing, and midwifery; (2) the role it plays in marking boundaries of relationship among health care professionals; and (3) in relationship with patients. [...] Through the process of professional socialization, the educators seek to empower nurses and to reduce the authoritarianism of physicians, which is often present in the countries of origin of IEHPs. [...] These key-informants were asked to comment on their role and the role of their organizations in the process of the integration of immigrant health care providers. [...] The rest of the coding was done using the formed key-themes scheme, created in the middle of the project.