title: Doctors for the world: Indian physician emigration.
abstract: Almost 60,000 Indian physicians practice in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia--a workforce equal to 10 percent of the physicians in India and the largest émigré physician workforce in the world. I traveled to India to interview leaders in medical education, health policy, and public health, to better characterize and understand Indian physician emigration. A changing political and policy environment in India is raising new questions about what might be done to keep more of India's physicians at home.
authors.forename: Fitzhugh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mullan
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D002170:Canada; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D006291:Health Policy; D006280:Health Workforce; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007857:Leadership; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States