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

Piet Groot and Naomi Ellemers

Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 383, issue C

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Migrant doctors; Concordance; Discordance; Education; Morality; Sociability; Competence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118409

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