From the Transvaal to the Prairies: The Migration of South African Physicians to Canada

Grant, Hugh

doi:10.1080/13691830600610098

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“…This finding poses a serious concern for the home countries, especially to developing countries, as these students are those whom the country can the least afford to lose. Losses resulting from the outmigration of health personnel, for example, lead to staffing crises such as those in Zimbabwe's (Chikanda 2006) and South Africa's (Grant 2006) public health sectors.…”

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Home is Where the Heart Is? Factors Determining International Students' Destination Country upon Completion of Studies Abroad

Soon

2011

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Using a multinomial logit model on a sample of 623 international students studying in New Zealand universities, this paper examines the factors determining which country the students intend to go to after completing their studies. The determining factors are found to be the initial return intention, family support, length of stay in New Zealand, work experience, and level and discipline of study. Other factors included students' perceptions of their home country, including those of the work environment, the opportunities to use their acquired skills, the lifestyle and their family ties. This paper fills two gaps in the literature, first by shifting the focus to New Zealand as the host country, and second, by examining the destination countries rather than the more typical issue of whether or not students return to their home country on completion of their studies.

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Home is Where the Heart Is? Factors Determining International Students' Destination Country upon Completion of Studies Abroad

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2011

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…These immigration changes facilitated the migration of hundreds of thousands of health care personnel from poorer jurisdictions to western countries to solve what were then deemed to be national physician and nursing shortages. Although we are now beginning to understand the broad socio-geographical impact of this massive international migration of health care workers [9-14], little has been written about the historical origins of this important era of post-war medical migration [15,16]. …”

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“…By the late 1990s, however, the issue of national doctor and nursing shortages had emerged as a major topic of concern and public interest. By this time, rural regions of industrialized countries were finding themselves denuded of primary care and looked abroad to foreign-trained doctors as a solution [13,14]. For the last decade then, western countries have ramped up their licensing of foreign-trained doctors.…”

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The 'Brain Drain' of Physicians: Historical antecedents to an ethical debate, c. 1960-79

Wright

Flis²,

Gupta

2008

Philos Ethics Humanit Med

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Many western industrialized countries are currently suffering from a crisis in health human resources, one that involves a debate over the recruitment and licensing of foreign-trained doctors and nurses. The intense public policy interest in foreign-trained medical personnel, however, is not new. During the 1960s, western countries revised their immigration policies to focus on highly-trained professionals. During the following decade, hundreds of thousands of health care practitioners migrated from poorer jurisdictions to western industrialized countries to solve what were then deemed to be national doctor and nursing 'shortages' in the developed world. Migration plummeted in the 1980s and 1990s only to re-emerge in the last decade as an important debate in global health care policy and ethics. This paper will examine the historical antecedents to this ethical debate. It will trace the early articulation of the idea of a 'brain drain', one that emerged from the loss of NHS doctors to other western jurisdictions in the 1950s and 1960s. Only over time did the discussion turn to the 'manpower' losses of 'third world countries', but the inability to track physician migration, amongst other variables, muted any concerted ethical debate. By contrast, the last decade's literature has witnessed a dramatically different ethical framework, informed by globalization, the rise of South Africa as a source donor country, and the ongoing catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic. Unlike the literature of the early 1970s, recent scholarship has focussed on a new framework of global ethics.

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“…1 These doctors tend to be young (under 42 years), male and not yet specialised. This exodus vastly increases the workload of the doctors who remain.…”

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The influence of burnout on skills retention of junior doctors at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital: A case study

Stodel

Stewart-Smith

2011

S Afr Med J

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From the Transvaal to the Prairies: The Migration of South African Physicians to Canada

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

Home is Where the Heart Is? Factors Determining International Students' Destination Country upon Completion of Studies Abroad

Home is Where the Heart Is? Factors Determining International Students' Destination Country upon Completion of Studies Abroad

The 'Brain Drain' of Physicians: Historical antecedents to an ethical debate, c. 1960-79

The influence of burnout on skills retention of junior doctors at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital: A case study

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