[What Measures Help with the Professional Integration of Migrated Doctors in Rehabilitation Clinics?]

National and international literature and our own preliminary work indicate that the professional integration of migrant doctors in rehabilitation clinics poses a considerable challenge.

The STIR project worked with four rehabilitation clinics in Germany to develop various measures to ensure the structured transition and professional integration of migrated doctors. The selected measures include a short film, a website, management training, intercultural training, a peer support programme and a strategy for initial discussions. In this article we describe the preparation, implementation and evaluation of the prototypes of the above measures as part of a feasibility study with regard to acceptance, practicability and integrability.

It turns out that the measures can be easily implemented in everyday clinical practice and are accepted and considered useful by the participants. Options for optimisation are described.

The study provides initial indications of interventions which promote the professional integration of migrated doctors. Additional analyses of sustainability and precise customisation to the local target group are recommended.