Doctors and soccer players - African professionals on the move

Article Abstract:

Health care in Ghana is at a standstill, chiefly due to the migration of doctors and nurses to the United States and the United Kingdom for better training, professional and income opportunities, similar to the migration of soccer players to Europe. The migration of medical professionals affect such developing countries adversely, and the U.S. must make efforts to train more doctors at home in order to slow down migration that would eventually enable stability to medical programs in poorer countries.

Africa, Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners, Offices of health practitioners, not elsewhere classified, Nurses, Ghana

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Pakistani physicians and the repatriation equation

Article Abstract:

Research indicates that only 300 of the 10,000 international medical graduates (IMGs) from Pakistan trained as medical graduates in the U.S. have repatriated despite a shortage of physicians there. Those who return, face challenging local circumstances for which they are considered unsuitably trained. The U.S. medical community can take the initiative in solving this problem in institutions in developing countries and thus avail the skills of the IMGs who wish to repatriate.

Pakistan, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations

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The metrics of the physician brain drain

Article Abstract:

An emigration factor for the countries of origin of the immigrant physicians to provide a relative measure of the number of physicians lost by emigration is computed using of World Health Organization data. The results reveal that reliance on international medical graduates in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia is reducing the supply of physicians in many lower-income countries.

United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Brain drain

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