On Being a Foreign Psychiatric Resident

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Abstract
The problems of foreign residents in psychiatry in Canada are examined under the general headings of communication difficulties, cultural differences, personal and professional problems. It is emphasized that each resident presents his unique combination of problems and possesses positive values of his culture-shift which are potentially contributory to better empathy with patients. About 25 percent to 50 percent of residents in psychiatry in Canada are foreign medical graduates.