Physicians wanting a better life?

The New England Journal of Medicine reports:

International medical graduates constitute between 23 and 28 percent of physicians in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, and lower-income countries supply between 40 and 75 percent of these international medical graduates. India, the Philippines, and Pakistan are the leading sources of international medical graduates. The United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia draw a substantial number of physicians from South Africa, and the United States draws very heavily from the Philippines. Nine of the 20 countries with the highest emigration factors are in sub-Saharan Africa or the Caribbean.

The inadequacy and instability of the physician workforce in many lower-income countries are major impediments to disease-reduction initiatives sponsored by the Global Fund, the WHO, the World Bank, the U.S. government, and many others.

Read The Metrics of the Physician Brain Drain by Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D. in The New England Journal of Medicine here.

H/T to the well-read FinzToRite.