Population Growth and the Brain Drain.

D. E. Baines; F. Bechhofer

doi:10.2307/2594676

Population Growth and the Brain Drain.

The Economic History Review ◽

10.2307/2594676 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 616

Author(s):

D. E. Baines ◽

F. Bechhofer

Keyword(s):

Population Growth ◽

Brain Drain ◽

The Brain

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Population Growth and the Brain Drain.

International Migration Review ◽

10.2307/3002064 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 108

Author(s):

Jean Leonard Elliott ◽

Frank Bechhofer

Keyword(s):

Population Growth ◽

Brain Drain ◽

The Brain

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Population Growth and the Brain Drain.

Population Studies ◽

10.2307/2172757 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 149

Author(s):

Brinley Thomas ◽

F. Bechhofer

Keyword(s):

Population Growth ◽

Brain Drain ◽

The Brain

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A Survey of Postgraduate Psychiatric Education in Canada, 1966–1967

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal ◽

10.1177/070674376801300506 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 417-423 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R. C. A. Hunter ◽

D. H. Frayn

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Population Growth ◽

Brain Drain ◽

Training Programs ◽

Psychiatric Education ◽

Medical Graduates ◽

Foreign Medical Graduates ◽

Return Home ◽

The Brain ◽

Do So

Our Canadian programs produce about 100 psychiatrists a year and are likely to do so for the next three or four. There are approximately 4,400 medical students in the country at present (5). If we use Funkenstein's figure of 10% of medical students and Clarke and Fish's figure of 11.4% of residents opting for psychiatry it means an indigenous pool of 400 students or 100 a year (4). This number can be increased by foreign medical graduates, reduction in Certification and Fellowship failures, reducing the brain-drain, and inducing Canadian graduates to return home. The country-needs another 785 psychiatrists immediately to attain a 1:10,000 ratio of psychiatrists to population. At the present rates of psychiatrist production and population growth the manpower picture would improve only very slowly. It appears that the capacity of present training programs is not adequate to meet national requirements even if enough trainees were available to fill them. The time is ripe for imaginative and novel solutions to this problem.

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