Physician Emigration from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States

• Tác giả: Akhenaten Benjamin Siankam Tankwanchi
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 325.36 International migration and colonization
• Thông tin xuất bản: Public Library of Science, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 295387
• Chủ đề: 1. brain drain; 2. migration

Tóm tắt

The large-scale emigration of physicians from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to high-income nations is a serious development concern. Our objective was to determine current emigration trends of SSA physicians found in the physician workforce of the United States. We analyzed physician data from the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Workforce Statistics along with graduation and residency data from the 2011 American Medical Association Physician Masterfile (AMA-PM) on physicians trained or born in SSA countries who currently practice in the US. We estimated emigration proportions, year of US entry, years of practice before emigration, and length of time in the US.