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- Title
Medical "Brain Drain" and Health Care Worker Shortages: How Should International Training Programs Respond?
- Authors
Karan, Abraar; DeUgarte, Daniel; Barry, Michele
- Abstract
The movement of health care workers from countries with resource scarcity and immense need ("source" countries) to areas of resource abundance and greater personal opportunity ("destination" countries) presents a complex set of decisions and relationships that affect the development of international health care systems. We explore the extent to which ethical quandaries arising from this movement are the responsibility of the said actors and the implications of these ethical quandaries for patients, governments, and physicians through the case of Dr. R, a surgeon from Nigeria who is considering working in the United States, where he is being trained to help develop surgical capacity in his country. We suggest how Dr. R, the United States, and Nigeria all contribute to "brain drain" in different but complementary ways.
- Subjects
DEVELOPING countries; LABOR mobility; MEDICAL ethics; PHYSICIANS; POPULATION geography; DEVELOPED countries
- Publication
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2016, Vol 18, Issue 7, p665
- ISSN
2376-6980
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.7.ecas1-1607