Why are You Draining Your Brain? Factors Underlying Decisions of Graduating Lebanese Medical Students to Migrate  

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Akl, Elie A. ; Maroun, Nancy ; Major, Stella ; Afif, Claude ; Chahoud, Bechara ; Choucair, Jacques ; Sakr, Mazen ; Schunemann, Holger J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 64 no. 6 (Mar. 2007), page 1278-1284.
Topik: Lebanon; Middle east; Brain drain; Migration; Physicians; Medical students

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.10 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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In the context of a worldwide physician brain drain phenomenon, Lebanon has the highest emigration factor in the Middle East and North Africa. In this manuscript we aim to identify and develop a conceptual framework for the factors underlying the decisions of graduating Lebanese medical students to train abroad. We conducted two focus groups and seven semi-structured individual interviews with 23 students. In the deductive analysis (based on the push–pull theory), students reported push factors in Lebanon and pull factors abroad related to five dimensions. They focused predominantly on how training abroad provides them with a competitive advantage in an oversaturated Lebanese job market. 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. The marketing of abroad training and the culture of migration are prevalent in the academic institutions.

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