Open AccessHealth information without borders: Foreign‐trained health professionals and labor market integration
Author(s) -
Komlodi Anita,
Caidi Nadia,
Abrao Aline Lima
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2014.14505101159
Subject(s) - health professionals , work (physics) , psychology , public relations , medical education , nursing , health care , medicine , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , law
Foreign‐trained health professionals (doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and others) arrive in the US and Canada every year to find a professional environment that is often unwelcoming and complex. In this work‐in‐progress poster we explore the experiences and information behavior of these professionals as they search for health‐ and career‐related information to integrate into their new professional environments. Results from this research can in the future support the design of information resources and services to better serve foreign‐trained health professionals.