The Brain Drain Myth: Retention of Specialist Surgical Graduates in East, Central and Southern Africa, 1974–2013
| Autor: | Jane O. Fualal, Krikor Erzingatsian, Abebe Bekele, Avril Hutch, Eric O’Flynn, Sean Tierney, Christopher A. Samkange, Andrew K N Ndonga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Specialty Surgical workforce Specialties Surgical 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Health care medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Africa South of the Sahara Surgeons business.industry Brain drain Emigration and Immigration Retention rate Vascular surgery Surgical training 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Family medicine Workforce Female Surgery business |
| Zdroj: | World Journal of Surgery. 41:3046-3053 |
| ISSN: | 1432-2323 0364-2313 |
| Popis: | This study assesses the retention of specialist surgical graduates from training programmes across eight countries in East, Central and Southern Africa from 1974 to 2013. It addresses the gap in existing data by analysing retention rates of surgical graduates by comparing graduating institution to current location. Data were assessed by country, region, specialty and gender with a view to informing national and regional healthcare and education strategies. Twenty-five institutions train surgeons in the ten countries covered by the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA)—24 Universities and the College itself. These institutions were requested in November 2014 to supply details of graduates from their postgraduate surgical training programmes. Complete graduate lists were returned by the College and 14 universities by March 2016. These surgical graduates were compared against the database of current practising surgeons in the region held by COSECSA. Data were cross-checked against medical council registers, surgical society records, and with members and fellows of COSECSA. Data were incomplete for 126 surgical graduates. Of the remaining 1038 surgical graduates, 85.1% were retained in the country they trained in, while 88.3% were retained within the COSECSA region. Ninety-three per cent (93.4%) were retained within Africa. Of the eight countries, Malawi had the highest retention rate with 100% of surgical graduates remaining in country, while Zimbabwe had the lowest rate with 65.5% remaining. High surgical graduate retention rates across the region indicate that the expansion of national surgical training initiatives is an effective solution to addressing the surgical workforce shortage in East, Central and Southern Africa and counters long-held arguments regarding brain drain in this region. |
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