Migration of International Medical Graduates: Implications for the Brain-Drain
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Migration of International Medical Graduates: Implications for the Brain- Drain
Studies indicate that about 23 percent to 28 percent of the physicians working and residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand were born and trained in the low-income countries, areas suffering from critical shortages of physicians and other health workers. In the US alone, the preponderance of the foreign physicians hails from South Africa, Philippines, India, Paki...
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Medicine Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1874-2203
DOI: 10.2174/1874220301401010017