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Physician migration at its roots: a study on the factors contributing towards a career choice abroad among students at a medical school in Pakistan

Overview of attention for article published in Globalization and Health, December 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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1 news outlet
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2 policy sources
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Title
Physician migration at its roots: a study on the factors contributing towards a career choice abroad among students at a medical school in Pakistan
Published in
Globalization and Health, December 2012
DOI 10.1186/1744-8603-8-43
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Authors

Asfandyar Sheikh, Syed Hassan Abbas Naqvi, Kainat Sheikh, Syed Hassan Shiraz Naqvi, Muhammad Yasin Bandukda

Abstract

Physician migration, also known as "brain drain," results from a combination of a gap in the supply and demand in developed countries and a lack of job satisfaction in developing countries. Many push and pull factors are responsible for this effect, with media and internet playing their parts. Large-scale physician migration can pose problems for both the donor and the recipient countries, with a resulting reinforcement in the economic divide between developed and developing countries. The main objectives of our study were to determine the prevalence of migration intentions in medical undergraduates, to elucidate the factors responsible and to analyze the attitudes and practices related to these intentions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
Pakistan 2 1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 185 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 15%
Student > Bachelor 26 14%
Researcher 20 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 6%
Other 39 20%
Unknown 53 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 60 31%
Social Sciences 20 10%
Psychology 14 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 13 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 7%
Other 18 9%
Unknown 53 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 July 2023.
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#2,147,665
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Globalization and Health
#354
of 1,226 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,415
of 286,850 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#2
of 11 outputs
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