Quality of medical training and emigration of physicians from India.

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 quinti

SUBMITTER: Kaushik M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2637864 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature