Congratulations to Piet Groot and Naomi Ellemers for their newly published article in Social Science & Medicine, “How the country of education affects migrant doctors’ acceptance among their patients”.
In this paper based on one of Dr. Groot’s thesis chapters, he and Prof. Ellemers studied why patients in the UK and the Netherlands have lower trust in foreign doctors. They asked, to what extent does the country where a doctor is educated – as opposed to the place they were born – predict patients’ attitudes towards that doctor?
They found that a doctor’s birthplace and the country of their education impacted patients’ acceptance of that doctor. If a doctor was trained in the UK, for example, as opposed to their home country, patients associated that doctor with higher levels of competence. Hence, providing foreign doctors with training in their destination country may lead to greater acceptance.
You can read the article here.
