Nigerian medical graduates: where are they now?

Ihekweazu, Chikwe; Anya, Ike; Anosike, Enyinnaya

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)66612-3

Cited by 25 publications

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“…A recent survey (Iekweauzu et al 2005) has shown that 40% of the graduates of one Nigerian medical school have left the country and we need to ask ourselves why young doctors like the one quoted above want to specialize when the main determinants of ill health in their country are caused by a breakdown of public health. They fail to see that the solution is a primary care system which delivers basic health care to everyone.…”

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Medical migration and Africa: an unwanted legacy of educational change

Bundred

Gibbs

2007

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The opportunities given for medical staff to travel, work and remain in countries other than that of their domicile or graduation have led to the phenomenon of medical migration. This has been supported by ease of travel, improved technology and a drive to share good examples of medical education through improved communication. Whilst these opportunities create positive advantages to the individuals and countries involved, through the transfer of knowledge and medical management, the situation does not always lead to long term benefits, and clear disadvantages begin to emerge. The gulf between the developed and developing countries becomes pronounced, leading to a general drift of resources away from the areas where they are most needed and subsequent profound effects upon the indigenous population. This paper suggests that it is a responsibility of medical educators throughout the world to recognize this effect and create opportunities whereby the specialty of medical education positively effects medical migration to the benefit of the less fortunate areas of the world.

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Section: An Educational Problem?mentioning

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Medical migration and Africa: an unwanted legacy of educational change

Bundred

Gibbs

2007

Medical Teacher

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“…Africa accounts for 24% of the global disease burden but only 3% of the global health workforce [4]. The reasons for this are well documented and include inadequate salaries and poor working conditions leading to staff attrition, unwillingness of international donors to support financing for human resources [5], an insufficiency of medical schools [6], and the brain drain of health staff to resource-rich countries [4],[7],[8]. The human resource crisis is most acute at the level of specialists, including surgeons and anesthesiologists [9],[10].…”

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Surgical Task Shifting in Sub-Saharan Africa

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“…Many contributors argue, correctly in our view, that rich recipient countries should return the subsidies that poor source countries had invested in migrants' medical training (Ihekweazu et al, 2005). Furthermore, compensation could and arguably should cover earlier investment in doctors' education prior to medical school (Nayak, 2007), loss of income from taxation, and perhaps consequent deaths, morbidities and lost workdays.…”

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