RT Journal
A1 Friedrich MJ
T1 Nepalese medical students: Who stays, who leaves?
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD October 17
VO 308
IS 15
SP 1515
OP 1515
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.13118
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.13118
AB 
The researchers located 710 of 727 physicians who had graduated from the first 22 classes (1983-2004) of Nepal's Institute of Medicine and determined their eventual location of practice. They found that 193 were working in districts outside the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, 261 were working in Kathmandu, and 256 were working abroad. Those who received paramedical education (a common route to medicine in Nepal), those who were born in rural areas, and those in the lower third of their class were more likely to be working in rural Nepal.