Attitude of Medical Students about Migrating Abroad: A Cross Sectional Study

Abstract

compel them to migrate to developed world. This is 3 commonly known as the brain drain . This migration of doctors as well as supporting staff is the most challenging aspects of globalization that has led to policy changes at the technical and 4 political level. Most of the countries that are generating doctors are the countries that have huge population and are actually in need of them. These are future leaders that can bring about reforms in academics and research but because of migration trends, there is intellectual, socioeconomic and 5 demographic loses. Migration and reasons behind migration from developing countries has been addressed in literature but very little is known about Pakistan. A 6 survey conducted at Wah Cantt showed that international careers were anticipated by 27.2% of participants with main reasons for immigration were high salary, higher educational opportunities, good 6 working conditions and structured career path. Introduction The phenomenon of health professional migration has been known and documented several decades back. Reasons are broadly demographic and 1 epidemiological changes worldwide. This trend is more prevalent in Asian and African countries as these countries provides least facilities to their 2 doctors and paramedical staff. These doctors when come in the workforce face the harsh realities of the profession. The amplified workload, lack of support from the government, insecure and poorly paid jobs Attitude of Medical Students about Migrating Abroad: A Cross Sectional Study Khola Waheed Khan, Sadia Nadeem, Qurat ul Ain, Syeda Fatima Muhammad, Tajalee Zafar, Mehr-unNisa