Associate Professor
Stonechurch Family Health Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Expertise: IEHPs, Internationally Trained Physicians, Education, International Students, Evidence-Based Medicine
Dr. Inge Schabort is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and the International Medical Graduate (IMG) Director and Academic Half Day Coordinator at the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University. She practices as a full-time family physician at Stonechurch Family Health Centre and she tutors QI and Evidence-Based Medicine, Quality Improvement and Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences in the residency program. She recently completed a Masters degree in Health Professions Education (MHPE) at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands (2020) and MSc in Evidence Based Health Care from Oxford University in the UK (2022).
After medical school she worked as a physician in Sub-Saharan Africa for 10 years and completed postgraduate training in obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, epidemiology, immunology, endocrinology, biochemistry and pathology before she was recruited to Canada. In Canada she had to compete for an IMG position in Ontario and then repeat her clerkship as well as complete a family medicine residency in the Ontario IMG program.