ArticleCureus2025
Nigeria's Medical Exodus: Urgent Reforms to Retain Doctors.
Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Impact of current U.S. visa policies on Nigerian medical students and physicians seeking graduate medical education.BMC medical education · 2026Article
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Abstract
Nigeria is facing a worsening healthcare workforce crisis driven by the large-scale migration of its doctors, a phenomenon often described as 'brain drain'. A 15-year cohort study found that nearly half of Nigerian medical graduates had emigrated within 15 years of qualification, contributing to a physician density of only about 3.8 per 10,000 people, far below global benchmarks for adequate physician coverage. Key factors include excessive and unregulated working hours, low and irregular remuneration, limited professional development, poor infrastructure, and weak institutional support. This exodus has resulted in understaffed hospitals, reduced mentorship and training capacity, impaired healthcare delivery, and widening inequities in access to care. Addressing this crisis requires coordinated reforms to establish and enforce reasonable duty-hour limits, improve remuneration, strengthen postgraduate training systems, and invest in leadership and infrastructure to promote doctor retention and sustain Nigeria's health system.
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