TY  - JOUR
T1  - Nepalese medical students: Who stays, who leaves?
AU  - Friedrich MJ
Y1  - 2012/10/17
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.13118
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1515
EP  - 1515
VL  - 308
IS  - 15
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.13118
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.13118
ER  -