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Why are you draining your brain? Factors underlying decisions of graduating Lebanese medical students to migrate
Elie A. Akl,Nancy Maroun,Stella Major,Claude Afif,Bechara Chahoud,Jacques Choucair,Mazen Sakr,Holger J. Schünemann +7 more
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An inductive analysis revealed the following emerging concepts: repel factors abroad and retain factors locally; societal expectations that students should train abroad; marketing of abroad training; and an established culture of migration.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2007-03-01. It has received 69 citations till now.read more
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A national cross-sectional study on nurses' intent to leave and job satisfaction in Lebanon: implications for policy and practice
TL;DR: Findings can be used by health care managers and policy makers in managing job satisfaction, intent to leave and nurse migration in a country suffering from a nursing shortage.
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Addressing Dichotomous Data for Participants Excluded from Trial Analysis: A Guide for Systematic Reviewers
Elie A. Akl,Bradley C. Johnston,Bradley C. Johnston,Pablo Alonso-Coello,Ignacio Neumann,Shanil Ebrahim,Matthias Briel,Matthias Briel,Deborah J. Cook,Gordon H. Guyatt +9 more
TL;DR: This guide proposes methods for handling participants excluded from analyses of randomized trials using relatively extreme assumptions that may vary in plausibility to help in establishing the extent to which risk of bias impacts meta-analysis results.
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Attitudes of undergraduate medical students of Addis Ababa University towards medical practice and migration, Ethiopia
Wakgari Deressa,Aklilu Azazh +1 more
TL;DR: The attitudes of the majority of Ethiopian medical students in the capital city towards practicing medicine in rural areas were found to be poor, and the intent to migrate after completing medical training was found to been very high among the study participants, creating a huge potential for brain drain.
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Surgeon migration between developing countries and the United States: train, retain, and gain from brain drain.
Lars Hagander,Lars Hagander,Lars Hagander,Christopher D. Hughes,Christopher D. Hughes,Katherine A. Nash,Karan Ganjawalla,Karan Ganjawalla,Allison F. Linden,Allison F. Linden,Allison F. Linden,Yolanda Martins,Yolanda Martins,Kathleen M. Casey,John G. Meara,John G. Meara +15 more
TL;DR: This study suggests that surgically oriented medical graduates from LMICs migrate primarily for professional reasons, and Initiatives to improve specialist education and surgical infrastructure inLMICs have the potential to promote retention of the surgical workforce.
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Nurses, Inc.: expansion and commercialization of nursing education in the Philippines.
TL;DR: Results suggest that nursing schools have expanded migration opportunities by making nursing educational available to more students and more diverse student populations, and indirectly contribute to declining quality of nursing education, misuse of scarce resources, corruption in the nursing sector, and exacerbation of existing health workforce imbalances.
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