ArticleJournal of medical education and curricular development
Factors Associated With Migration Intentions Among Talented Medical Students in Iran: Cultural, Educational, and Social Correlates.
Article in Journal of medical education and curricular development. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Healthcare brain drain challenges health systems in developing countries, and Iran loses considerable medical talent annually. Bright Talents Committee medical students are pivotal to the national health system yet exhibit high emigration propensity. This study examined the cultural, educational, and social correlates of migration intention, alongside demographic differences. Methods: In this descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study, 150 talented students (professional doctorate/postgraduate) from Iran's Region 4 were surveyed using validated tools: Neill's Educational Satisfaction Questionnaire, Pascarella and Terenzini's Institutional Integration Scale, and Seeman's Cultural Alienation Questionnaire. Migration intention was assessed via a 5-point Likert scale (Cronbach's α=0.85). Data were analyzed (SPSS 26) using Pearson correlations, t-tests/ANOVA, and multiple linear regression. Sample size was determined a priori by power analysis (medium effect, power=0.80, α=0.05). Inclusion criteria were registration in a Region 4 Bright Talents Committee program, current student status, and written informed consent; students with over six months of prior study or work abroad were excluded. Results: Migration intention was high (51.2% scoring ≥4; M=3.8/5, SD=0.9). Cultural factors were significantly associated with migration intention (r=0.367, p<0.001; unstandardized B=0.10, p=0.001; R Conclusion: Cultural alienation was the strongest correlate of migration intentions, though the cross-sectional design precludes causal inference. The attenuation of educational and social associations in the multivariable model suggests substantial shared variance with cultural alienation. These findings highlight cultural belonging as a target for student support and retention policy, pending careful appraisal of specific interventions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.