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    Quality of medical training and emigration of physicians from India.

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    Kaushik, M; Roy, A; Bang, AA; Mahal, A
    Date
    2008-12-30
    Source Title
    BMC Health Services Research
    Publisher
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Mahal, Ajay
    Affiliation
    Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
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    Journal Article
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    Kaushik, M., Roy, A., Bang, A. A. & Mahal, A. (2008). Quality of medical training and emigration of physicians from India.. BMC Health Serv Res, 8 (1), pp.279-. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-279.
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    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/256521
    DOI
    10.1186/1472-6963-8-279
    Open Access at PMC
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2637864
    Abstract
    BACKGROUND: Physician 'brain drain' negatively impacts health care delivery. Interventions to address physician emigration have been constrained by lack of research on systematic factors that influence physician migration. We examined the relationship between the quality of medical training and rate of migration to the United States and the United Kingdom among Indian medical graduates (1955-2002). METHODS: We calculated the fraction of medical graduates who emigrated to the United States and the United Kingdom, based on rankings of medical colleges and universities according to three indicators of the quality of medical education (a) student choice, (b) academic publications, and (c) the availability of specialty medical training. RESULTS: Physicians from the top quintile medical colleges and of universities were 2 to 4 times more likely to emigrate to the United States and the United Kingdom than graduates from the bottom quintile colleges and universities. CONCLUSION: Graduates of institutions with better quality medical training have a greater likelihood of emigrating. Interventions designed to counter loss of physicians should focus on graduates from top quality institutions.

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