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How the country of education affects migrant doctors’ acceptance among their patients

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  • Groot, Piet
  • Ellemers, Naomi

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Countries such as the UK are becoming increasingly dependent on foreign-schooled doctors for supplying medical services. This leads to well-known patient—doctor discordance issues, such as lower patient trust in foreign doctors. The role of doctor education in this issue is not well understood, leading us to pose the question: To which extent does the place where a doctor was educated, as opposed to the place where they were born, predict patients' attitudes and behavioural intentions towards that doctor? In addition, we investigate if patients’ intentions towards a foreign doctor can be influenced by providing information about three well-known social attributes that may be affected by doctor education, i.e., competence, sociability, and morality.

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  • Groot, Piet & Ellemers, Naomi, 2025. "How the country of education affects migrant doctors’ acceptance among their patients," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 383(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:383:y:2025:i:c:s0277953625007403
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118409
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