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Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada
Health workforce planning has become a significant global problem considering there are estimates of an 18 million healthcare provider shortfall by 2030. There are two mechanisms to address healthcare worker shortages: (1) domestic education of those professions and (2) integration of internationall...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10559399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37803342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-023-00864-y |
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author | Lafave, Mark Ammanejad, Yasaman Mammadova, Ulkar Eubank, Breda |
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description | Health workforce planning has become a significant global problem considering there are estimates of an 18 million healthcare provider shortfall by 2030. There are two mechanisms to address healthcare worker shortages: (1) domestic education of those professions and (2) integration of internationally educated health professionals. Integration of internationally educated health professionals into the Canadian healthcare system requires: (1) reductions in systemic and administrative barriers and (2) development, testing, and implementation of credential equivalency recognition systems. The goal of this scoping review was to identify systems that are employed to determine credential equivalency, with a focus on Canada. The scoping review was carried by employing: (1) a systematic literature search (9) and (2) a website and grey literature Google search of professional governing bodies from a selection of medical/allied healthcare professions, but also other non-medical professions, such as law, engineering and accounting. Seven databases were searched to identify relevant sources: MEDLINE, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, PsycINFO, SPORT Discus, Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, and SCOPUS. The search strategy combined keyword, text terms, and medical subject headings (MeSH) and was carried out with the help of a health sciences librarian. Seven articles were included in the final manuscript review from the following professions: nursing; psychology; engineering; pharmacy; and multiple health professions. Twenty-four health-related professional governing body websites were hand searched to determine systems to evaluate international equivalency. There were many systems employed to determine equivalency, but there were no systems that were automated or that employed machine-learning or artificial intelligence to guide the evaluation process. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12960-023-00864-y. |
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spelling | pubmed-105593992023-10-08 Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada Lafave, Mark Ammanejad, Yasaman Mammadova, Ulkar Eubank, Breda Hum Resour Health Review Health workforce planning has become a significant global problem considering there are estimates of an 18 million healthcare provider shortfall by 2030. There are two mechanisms to address healthcare worker shortages: (1) domestic education of those professions and (2) integration of internationally educated health professionals. Integration of internationally educated health professionals into the Canadian healthcare system requires: (1) reductions in systemic and administrative barriers and (2) development, testing, and implementation of credential equivalency recognition systems. The goal of this scoping review was to identify systems that are employed to determine credential equivalency, with a focus on Canada. The scoping review was carried by employing: (1) a systematic literature search (9) and (2) a website and grey literature Google search of professional governing bodies from a selection of medical/allied healthcare professions, but also other non-medical professions, such as law, engineering and accounting. Seven databases were searched to identify relevant sources: MEDLINE, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, PsycINFO, SPORT Discus, Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, and SCOPUS. The search strategy combined keyword, text terms, and medical subject headings (MeSH) and was carried out with the help of a health sciences librarian. Seven articles were included in the final manuscript review from the following professions: nursing; psychology; engineering; pharmacy; and multiple health professions. Twenty-four health-related professional governing body websites were hand searched to determine systems to evaluate international equivalency. There were many systems employed to determine equivalency, but there were no systems that were automated or that employed machine-learning or artificial intelligence to guide the evaluation process. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12960-023-00864-y. BioMed Central 2023-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10559399/ /pubmed/37803342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-023-00864-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Review Lafave, Mark Ammanejad, Yasaman Mammadova, Ulkar Eubank, Breda Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada |
title | Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada |
title_full | Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada |
title_fullStr | Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada |
title_full_unstemmed | Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada |
title_short | Systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on Canada |
title_sort | systems that evaluate international equivalency in health-related professions: a scoping review with a focus on canada |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10559399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37803342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-023-00864-y |
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