Medical Brain Drain: Free-Riding, Exploitation, and Global Justice

Ireland’s medical brain drain: migration intentions of Irish medical students

BACKGROUND To provide the optimum level of healthcare, it is important that the supply of well-trained doctors meets the demand. However, despite many initiatives, Ireland continues to have a shortfall of physicians, which has been projected to persist. Our study aimed to investigate the migration intentions of Irish medical students and identify the factors that influence their decisions in or...

Internationally Specialized Medical Education Plan and the Issue of Brain Drain

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Free Riding

We use a unique dataset that combines the responses from an original survey of households, information about the structural characteristics of their homes, utility-provided longitudinal electricity usage records, plus utility program participation information, to study the uptake of energy efficiency incentives and their effect on residential electricity consumption. Attention is restricted to ...

Primum Nocere: Medical Brain Drain and the Duty to Stay.

In this essay, we focus on the moral justification of a highly controversial measure to redress medical brain drain: the duty to stay. We argue that the moral justification for this duty lies primarily in the fact that medical students impose high risks on their fellow citizens while receiving their medical training, which in turn gives them a reciprocity-based reason to temporarily prioritize ...

BRAIN DRAIN, TALENT Brain Drain, Talent Mobility and Academic Networking