“The Metrics of the Physician Brain Drain”

Physicians brain drain was a hot topic a few decades ago. It was reopened about a year ago in the New England Journal of Medicine.1 This paper was what it said it was— quantification of the problem. Additionally, host countries, or the four major recipients of the “medical brains,” were identified in that article as being the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. The term “international medical graduates” (IMGs) has also replaced the former “foreign medical graduate” (FMGs), because this newer term also covers the large number of the United States citizens who obtain their medical education outside the United States.