ABSTRACT The National Health Service (NHS) is undergoing a staffing crisis. Workforce planning has proposed that international medical graduates (IMGs) are to be significant in addressing this problem. However, IMGs currently practising in the United Kingdom have highlighted several difficulties in adjusting to the NHS. A free online near‐peer teaching programme, IMG2UK, was developed to help IMGs with the transition to UK practice. IMG2UK has run for three iterations over 3 years with a total of 37 sessions of case‐based, online teaching. Sessions were delivered by near peers who were IMGs with a minimum of 2‐year NHS experience. These sessions were delivered over a period of 3 years and encompassed three PDSA cycles that guided improvements in the curriculum and delivery. This paper aims to provide a guide for creating a case‐based teaching programme for IMGs who are new or intend to practise in the United Kingdom, which focuses on elements of clinical practice that are unique to the NHS, as there currently exists a gap in postgraduate medical education that specifically addresses this need.
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