2020
African Physician Migration to High-Income Nations: Diverse Motives to Emigrate (“We Are not Florence Nightingale”) or Stay in Africa (“There Is No Place Like Home”); Comment on “Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the Battle”
Tankwanchi AS, Hagopian A, Vermund SH. African Physician Migration to High-Income Nations: Diverse Motives to Emigrate (“We Are not Florence Nightingale”) or Stay in Africa (“There Is No Place Like Home”); Comment on “Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the Battle”. International Journal Of Health Policy And Management 2020, 0: 660-663. PMID: 33160297, PMCID: PMC9278531, DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.219.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2015
Monitoring Sub-Saharan African Physician Migration and Recruitment Post-Adoption of the WHO Code of Practice: Temporal and Geographic Patterns in the United States
Tankwanchi AB, Vermund SH, Perkins DD. Monitoring Sub-Saharan African Physician Migration and Recruitment Post-Adoption of the WHO Code of Practice: Temporal and Geographic Patterns in the United States. PLOS ONE 2015, 10: e0124734. PMID: 25875010, PMCID: PMC4395332, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124734.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2013
Physician Emigration from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States: Analysis of the 2011 AMA Physician Masterfile
Tankwanchi AB, Özden Ç, Vermund SH. Physician Emigration from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States: Analysis of the 2011 AMA Physician Masterfile. PLOS Medicine 2013, 10: e1001513. PMID: 24068894, PMCID: PMC3775724, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001513.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhysician MasterfileAmerican Medical Association Physician MasterfileAMA Physician MasterfileYears of practicePhysician emigrationPhysician dataPhysiciansActive physiciansLength of timeEditors' SummarySSA countriesMasterfilePhysician workforceSaharan AfricaWorkforce statisticsUnited StatesImplementation yearResidency dataYearsHigh-income nationsSub-Saharan AfricaUS entryGreat need