Here to be and to bloom: a medical student’s forced migration
by Ayman Faroug Ayman Faroug was a medical student at the University of El Fashir until 2024. He had to leave in the middle of...
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Fear of referral: Fitness to practise and its implications on safety of migrant healthcare professionals in the UK
By Amrita Limbu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Leeds 2023 saw more doctors with overseas primary medical qualifications join the UK workforce than...
The Challenges of Active Recruitment Policies for the Moroccan Healthcare System
By Finola Durnin-Duffy, Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Scholar, University of Leeds I spent last year in Morocco studying Arabic and while I was there,...
Turning the tables on the language skills of overseas trained doctors? A prompt from the British Medical Journal
by Marie-Andrée Jacob During our AHRC project we have noted the emphasis placed on a stringent testing of English language skills for the internationally trained...
Uncertainty and insecurity of mobile lives: Migrant nurses in the UK NHS and the renewal and maintenance of professional registration in the home country
By Amrita Limbu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Leeds Yuna, a nurse from Asia has lived and worked in the UK for...
The international regulation of healthcare workers?
By Priyasha Saksena Our AHRC project examines the experiences of overseas-trained healthcare workers in navigating the system of professional regulation in the United Kingdom. The...
Gender, Migration, and Medical Registration in the UK
By Amrita Limbu Sociologist Margaret Stacey, in her study of the General Medical Council (GMC) Regulating British Medicine referred to medicine as ‘a man’s profession’....
Austrian Doctors in the British Caribbean
By Priyasha Saksena In this post, I examine how the regulatory instrument of registration became a useful mechanism to expand the availability of healthcare personnel...
Esther Simpson, pioneer and inspiration for Making it to the Registers
By Marie-Andrée Jacob In this first blog entry I introduce our 2023-2025 AHRC project Making it to the Registers via a foray into the personal archives of...