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dc.contributor.authorDrange, Idaen_US
dc.contributor.authorVågan, Andréen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-06T10:18:04Z
dc.date.available2013-09-06T10:18:04Z
dc.date.issued2013-04en_US
dc.identifier.citationDrange, I., & Vågan, A. (2013). Stratification in the medical profession: Non-Western physicians in Norway. Professions and Professionalism, 3(1).en_US
dc.identifier.issn1893 - 1049en_US
dc.identifier.otherFRIDAID: 1036511en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/1614
dc.description.abstractPrevious studies of internal stratification in medicine suggest that non-White foreign-trained physicians fill the bottom level of the specialist hierarchy. However, in this study we use administrative registers for majority and non-Western physicians in Norway and find that non-Western physicians acquire specialisation in the same volume as majority colleagues, are equally likely to enter several of the high prestige specialties and are not delayed in their careers. The equal distribution is discussed as a consequence of strong professional closure, bureaucratisation of hiring procedures and hospital organisation and governmental influence. Identified patterns, however, are not unequivocal. First, immigrant physicians have a significantly higher chance of becoming specialists compared to majority physicians. Second, foreign-educated non-Western physicians have a significantly lower likelihood of specialising in surgery fields. The exception from the overall equality may result from exclusionary practices previously identified in surgery, but it could also result from differences in motivation.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherOslo and Akershus University College Learning Centre and Libraryen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.subjectPhysiciansen_US
dc.subjectMedicineen_US
dc.subjectHierarchiesen_US
dc.subjectSpecialisationen_US
dc.subjectNon - western immigrantsen_US
dc.subjectNorwayen_US
dc.titleStratification in the medical profession: non-western physicians in Norwayen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionThis article is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY license.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7577/pp.517


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