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- Title
‘A Mysterious Discrimination’: Irish Medical Emigration to the United States in the 1950s.
- Authors
Jones, Greta
- Abstract
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Ireland exported a considerable number of her medical graduates, mainly to Britain and the British Empire. After the Second World War there was a shift. The 1950s and 1960s saw an increase in the emigration of doctors to North America. The American Medical Association, worried about the possible impact upon the profession, introduced in 1950 a list of foreign medical schools which, in their view, met American standards of medical education. The failure of Irish medical schools to make this approved list brought to the surface problems in Irish medical education. This episode illustrates a number of issues raised by medical migration; recognition of qualifications and equivalency across borders; the rise of the USA as a global medical hegemonic power; the involvement of national governments; and migration as a catalyst for change in the exporting country.
- Subjects
UNITED States; IRELAND; IMMIGRANTS; HISTORY of emigration &; immigration; PHYSICIANS; GENERAL Medical Council (Great Britain); AMERICAN Medical Association; IRISH social conditions; UNIVERSITY College, Dublin; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); NATIONAL Board of Medical Examiners; MEDICAL schools; TWENTIETH century; SOCIAL history; 20TH century Irish history; UNITED States emigration &; immigration; EMIGRATION &; immigration
- Publication
Social History of Medicine, 2012, Vol 25, Issue 1, p139
- ISSN
0951-631X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/shm/hkr049