Recruiting doctors from poor countries: the great brain robbery?
BMJPublished 16 October 2003
Vikram Patel
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This scheme to recruit senior psychiatrists and other specialists from India and other developing countries will worsen the brain drain and inequities in global health unless it is explicitly linked with measures to enable the flow of doctors back to developing countries.
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An important impediment to achieving health for all in developing countries is the shortage of doctors and nurses. Can the NHS justify schemes to recruit staff from these countries?
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Social SciencesHealth Professions
European PsychiatryThe NHS International Fellowship Scheme for consultant psychiatrists
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