Global accreditation for Health Professionals in Hyper-Mobile Workforce Aim of U of T’s Health Human Resources Migration International Symposium
Strategies for a global credential recognition system for health-care professionals are one of the aims for the University of Toronto’s Health Human Resources Migration International Policy Symposium, September 26-27, 2008, organized by the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Medicine.
With the global severity of doctors and nurses shortages facing crisis proportions, the Health Human Resources Symposium, the first of its kind, will discuss and strategize “big picture”’ issues such as:
- Devising new and potentially more effective means to ‘filter’ prospective global workforce arrivals
- The ethics of enticing health-care professionals from the developing world
- The challenges confronting national policymakers and regulatory authorities in the era of a hyper-mobile global workforce
- Breaking down interprovincial barriers to access to practice
Canada and other countries of the “North” in the North/South divide is both competitor and collaborator with such countries: competing with each other to secure the best contemporary global resources of skilled migrants in order to assure essential workforce supply; and collaborating with each other to share best practice strategies
The symposium is drawing international experts in academia, national and provincial policymakers in government, and a wide range of medicine and nursing professionals. Speakers include Dr. Demetrios Papademetriou, co-founder and president of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated exclusively to the study of international migration, and Dr. Lesleyanne Hawthorne, associate dean international, University of Melbourne, formerly research manager (social and demographic research) at Australia’s Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. Hawthorne has 20 years experience researching high skill migration, including foreign credential recognition strategies.
This timely symposium comes on the heels of the Broten report, recent changes announced by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and a new WHO code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel.
For further symposium information and to register: http://www.hhrmsymposium.nursing.utoronto.ca
To view the Broten report: http://ogov.newswire.ca/ontario/GPOE/2008/06/16/c4440.html?lmatch=&lang=_e.html
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario recent changes: http://www.cpso.on.ca/Info_physicians/regpol/new_pathways.pdf
WHO code of practice of the international recruitment of health personnel: http://www.who.int/hrh/public_hearing/draftcode/en/
