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Ireland’s medical brain drain: migration intentions of Irish medical students

Overview of attention for article published in Human Resources for Health, March 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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2 news outlets
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1 policy source
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22 X users
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1 Redditor

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Title
Ireland’s medical brain drain: migration intentions of Irish medical students
Published in
Human Resources for Health, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12960-015-0003-9
Pubmed ID
Authors

Pishoy Gouda, Kevin Kitt, David S Evans, Deirdre Goggin, Deirdre McGrath, Jason Last, Martina Hennessy, Richard Arnett, Siun O’Flynn, Fidelma Dunne, Diarmuid O’Donovan

Abstract

To provide the optimum level of healthcare, it is important that the supply of well-trained doctors meets the demand. However, despite many initiatives, Ireland continues to have a shortfall of physicians, which has been projected to persist. Our study aimed to investigate the migration intentions of Irish medical students and identify the factors that influence their decisions in order to design appropriate interventions to sustain the supply of trained doctors in order to maintain a viable medical system.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Egypt 1 <1%
Unknown 146 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 15%
Student > Bachelor 19 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 8%
Researcher 11 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 6%
Other 23 15%
Unknown 53 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 51 34%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 4%
Social Sciences 6 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 3%
Other 14 9%
Unknown 58 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 March 2023.
All research outputs
#998,737
of 24,401,594 outputs
Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#68
of 1,222 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,776
of 263,286 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#2
of 18 outputs
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