Health Worker Migration Research

Brain Drain, Brain Gain or Brain Waste: An Examination of Health Providers who Migrate to Canada, SSHRC, 2006-2009

ON THE MOVE:  Health Care Provider Migration Policy in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Australia, CIHR, 2006-2010

Selected Presentations:

• Bourgeault, I.L. International Trade Agreements and HRH Panel, International Health Workforce Collaborative Conference, London, UK, May, 2015.
  
  
• Bourgeault, I.L. Professions and the Migration of Expert Labour. The Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism, University of Helsinki, Nov, 2015.
  
  
• Bourgeault, I.L. The Balancing Act of Regulating Migration: Comparing Canada, Brazil, the Philippines & Cuba. Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, Brazil, Nov., 2013.
  
  
• Bourgeault, I.L. The Migration and Integration of IMGs in Canada & Australia: Changing Context of Immigration and Regulatory Policy. University of Warwick, March, 2013

Key Publications:

• Bourgeault, I., Atanackovic, J., and Neiterman, E. (2022)Gendering Integration Pathways: Migrating Health Professionals to Canada in M. Walton Roberts, Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials 
• Mathews, M., Bourgeault, I., & Ryan, D. (2022). Perceptions of bias in the selection of international medical graduate residency applicants in Canada. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 
• Neiterman, E., Bourgeault, I.L., Julie Peters, Victoria Esses, Elaine Dever, Rae Gropper, Christine Nielsen, Jenna Kelland & Peggy Sattler. (2018) Best practices in Bridging Education: Multiple Case Study Evaluation of Postsecondary Bridging Programs for Internationally Educated Health Professionals in Canada. Journal of Allied Health, 47(1) 23-28.
  
  
• Mathews, M., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2018). Saudi visa trainees called home from Canada in diplomatic dispute. The Lancet, Volume 392, Issue 10150, P815-816, September 08, 2018.
  
  
• Neiterman, E., Covell, C., & Bourgeault, I.L. (2018) ‘We Want to Be Seen as Partners, Not Vultures of the World:’ Canadian Stakeholders' Perspectives on Migration of International Students. Globalisation, Societies and Education. 1-14
  
  
• Neiterman, E., Bourgeault, I., L. & Covell, C. (2017) What do we know and not know about the Professional Integration of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in Canada? Healthcare Policy, 12(4) 18-32.
  
  
• Mathews M, Kandar R, Slade S, Yi Y, Beardall S. & Bourgeault I. (2017) Examination outcomes and work locations of international medical graduate family medicine residents in Canada. Canadian Family Physician. 63(10) 776-783. 
  
  
• Mathews M, Kandar R, Slade S, Yi Y, Beardall S, & Bourgeault I. (2017) Realization of Entry-to-Practice Milestones of Canadians who Studied Medicine Abroad and Other International Medical Graduates. CMAJ Open, 5(2) E472-482 
  
  
• Mathews M, Kandar R, Slade S, Yi Y, Beardall S, & Bourgeault I. (2017) Retention of Canadians who studied medicine abroad and other international medical graduates following post-graduate medical education training in Canada. Healthcare Policy. 12(4) 35-45
  
  
• Mathews M, Kandar R, Slade S, Yi Y, Beardall S, Bourgeault I, Buske L. (2017) Credentialing and retention of visa trainees in post-graduate medical education programs in Canada. Human Resources for Health, 15:38.
  
  
• Covell, C., Neiterman, E.& Bourgeault, I.L. (2016) Scoping review about the professional integration of internationally educated health professionals. Human Resources for Health 14:38.
  
  
• Neiterman, E. & Bourgeault, I.L. (2015) The Shield of Professional Status: Comparing Discriminatory Experiences of IENs and IMGs in Canada.  Health, 19(6) 1-20. 
  
  
• Neiterman, E. & Bourgeault, I.L. (2015) Professional integration as a process of professional resocialization: internationally educated health professionals in Canada. Social Science and Medicine, 131, 74-81. 
  
  
• Neiterman, E., Salmonsson, L. & Bourgeault, I.L. (2015) Navigating through otherness and belonging: A comparative case study of International Medical Graduates’ professional integration in Canada and Sweden. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 15(4): 773-795. 
  
  
• Covell, C., Neiterman, E. & Bourgeault, I.L. (2015) Forms of Capital as Facilitators of Internationally Educated Nurses’ Transition into the Canadian Workforce. Canadian Public Policy. Sup 1, S150-161.
  
  
• Covell, C., Neiterman, E., Bourgeault, I.L. (2014) A Scoping Review about Internationally Educated Nurses in Canada. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 46(3), 26-45
  
  
• Bourgeault, I.L., Neiterman, E. & LeBrun, J., (2011). Midwives on the Move: Comparing the Requirements for Practice and Integration Contexts for Internationally Educated Midwives in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. Midwifery, 27(3), 368-375