Gulbaz Ali Nasir, Shumaila Ali Nasir, Amir Usman, Tasneem Fatima, Sommayya Aftab, Zohaib Abid.
Intention of Final Year Medical Students to Go abroad and Impact of CIP on Brain Draining.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(2):696-9.

Aim: To access the intention in final year medical students of MBBS and BDS to go abroad after graduation and impact of central induction policy and other factors on brain draining. Method: This cross sectional study was conducted on 150 final year students of University college of medicine and dentistry, Lahore (UOL) during July- August, 2016.The pretested self-administered questionnaire was designed after extensive literature review and was distributed. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 2.0 and p value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Out of 150 students, 84 were females (56%) and 66 were males (44%). Majority of students (91.3%) were in age group of (21-25 years).There were 91(60.7%) students who have planned to migrate abroad, 30(20%) have no plan to go abroad and 29(19.3 %) were not sure about going abroad . Majority of students, 40.7% planned for UK, 34.7% planned for USA, 7.6% planned for Middle East countries, 6.8% planned for Australia and 10.2% mentioned other countries formigration. 83.4% were agreed that central induction policy (CIP) will increase brain draining,5.3% were disagree and 10.7% had no idea about CIP. Conclusion: Better carrier opportunity, Central induction policy, doctor harassment, peer pressure, to establish quickly and political instability were thereasons for the intentions in final year medical students to be established abroad. Lack of family support and resources, patriotisms, acism were reasons for rest of students (19.3%) to not go abroad.

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