The influence of internship training experience on Kenyan and Ugandan doctors’ career intentions and decisions: a qualitative study by Yingxi Zhao, Daniel Mbuthia, Dos Santos Ankomisyani, Claire Blacklock, David Gathara, Sassy Molyneux, Catia Nicodemo, Tom Richard Okello, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Raymond Tweheyo, Mike English

Subjects: “…internship…”
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Examining the absorption of post-internship medical officers into the public sector at county-level in devolved Kenya: a qualitative case study by Yingxi Zhao, Daniel Mbuthia, Joshua Munywoki, David Gathara, Catia Nicodemo, Jacinta Nzinga, Mike English

“…We aimed to examine how post-internship MOs are absorbed into the public sector at the county-level, as part of a broader project focusing on Kenya’s human resources for health. …”
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Development and validation of a new measurement instrument to assess internship experience of medical doctors in low-income and middle-income countries by David Gathara, Mike English, Fang Zhang, Kun Tang, Raymond Tweheyo, Bridget Wills, Yingxi Zhao, Phung Khanh Lam, Catia Nicodemo, Yakubu Kevin Kwarshak, Daniel Mbuthia, Sulaiman Jalloh, Nadine Misago, Mesulame Namedre, Nguyễn Thị Bé Phương, Sefanaia Qaloewa, Richard Summers

“…We describe our process developing and validating a ‘medical internship experience scale’ to address this gap, work involving nine LMICs that varied in geographical locations, income-level and internship training models. …”
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‘We were treated like we are nobody’: a mixed-methods study of medical doctors’ internship experiences in Kenya and Uganda by David Gathara, Mike English, Raymond Tweheyo, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Yingxi Zhao, Jacinta Nzinga, Fred Were, Justus Simba, Catia Nicodemo, Daniel Mbuthia, Dos Santos Ankomisyani, Lyndah Kemunto, Wangechi King’ori, Gilbert Munyoki, Joshua Munywoki, Tom Richard Okello, Evelyn Wagaiyu

“…Objective Medical interns are an important workforce providing first-line healthcare services in hospitals. The internship year is important for doctors as they transition from theoretical learning with minimal hands-on work under supervision to clinical practice roles with considerable responsibility. …”
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Correction: Examining the absorption of post-internship medical officers into the public sector at county-level in devolved Kenya: a qualitative case study by Yingxi Zhao, Daniel Mbuthia, Joshua Munywoki, David Gathara, Catia Nicodemo, Jacinta Nzinga, Mike English

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