The Metrics of the Physician Brain Drain

• Published in: The New England journal of medicine Vol. 353; no. 17; pp. 1810 - 1818
• Main Author: Mullan, Fitzhugh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA Massachusetts Medical Society 27.10.2005
• Subjects: Africa - ethnology; Asia, Western - ethnology; Australia; Biological and medical sciences; Brain drain; Canada; Caribbean Region - ethnology; Demographics; Developing Countries; Emigration and Immigration - statistics & numerical data; Foreign Medical Graduates - statistics & numerical data; Foreign Medical Graduates - supply & distribution; General aspects; LDCs; Medical sciences; Migration; Noncitizens; Physicians; Physicians - supply & distribution; United Kingdom; United States; Canada; United Kingdom > UK; Australia; United States > US; Immigration; Physician; Developing countries; Industrialized country; Surgeon; Empirical Approach; Health Care and Public Health

This study found that about a quarter of the physicians working in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia are immigrants who were educated in other countries. Many of these physicians come from lower-income countries, which may cause physician shortages in resource-poor nations...