International medical graduates' reflections on facilitators and barriers to undertaking the Australian medical council examination.

Objective: In Australia, 25% of international medical graduates (IMGs) make up the medical workforce. Concern is expressed in the literature about the lack of awareness and knowledge of issues that impinge on IMGs' education. Although there is literature alluding to difficulties IMGs face with undertaking the Australian Medical Council (AMC) examination, there is little research detailing this experience.

'All these allied health professionals and you're not really sure when you use them': insights from Australian international medical graduates on working with allied health.

Objective: This paper presents the findings of research which explored how International Medical Graduates (IMGs) understand and integrate with the allied health system in relation to multidisciplinary care.

Methods: An open-ended, exploratory qualitative design comprised of thirty (n=30) open-ended, in-depth interviews with IMGs employed in a public hospital in Queensland, Australia. RESULTS; Many IMGs have no experience with allied health support in their country of origin.

The case for Aboriginal Health Workers in palliative care.

Objectives: The findings are drawn from a 2-year research project, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), which aimed to develop an innovative model for Indigenous palliative care. The findings presented in this article explore one important strategy for putting Aboriginal families and their communities at the centre of the model: that is, the employment of Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) in relation to the provision of palliative care in the Northern Territory.

Methods: The data were collected from 72 qualitative interviews conducted throughout the regional, rural and remote areas of the Northern Territory with Indigenous patients and carers in the Northern Territory and the health professionals who care for them.

Description of an Australian model for end-of-life care in patients with hematologic malignancies.

Purpose/objectives: To present a model for end-of-life care in adult hematology that has been developed from nursing insights.

Data Sources: Insights obtained from 25 nursing interviews during a two-year, qualitative, Australian National Health and Medical Research Council research study.

Data Synthesis: The nursing insights indicate that an understanding of end-of-life care in hematology needs to be set in a trilogy of overlapping models (labeled functional, evolving, and refractory) that address the complexity of issues associated with professional and hospital culture.