Table 1.
Numbers and percentages of US and non-US citizens who graduated from international medical schools in the National Residency Match Program after the 2010 launch of the CoP.
Table 2.
Medical graduatesa from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the United States, and elsewhere in the December 2013 American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Masterfile.
Fig 1.
Projected numbers of active and semi-retired Sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrant physicians in the 2015 American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Masterfile.
Note: Based on available residency completions and expected completions of active and semi-retired Sub-Saharan African migrant physicians in the 2013 AMA Physician Masterfile [27]; SSA-IMGs, international medical graduates trained in SSA-based medical schools; SSA-BFTs, SSA-born, but foreign-trained physicians (including US medical graduates and international medical graduates trained in non-SSA-based medical schools).
Table 3.
Sub-Saharan African (SSA) immigrant physicians appearing in the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Masterfile before and after the launch of the WHO Global Code on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (CoP).
Fig 2.
Cumulative distribution curves for Sub-Saharan African international medical graduates’ (SSA-IMGs) ages at time of graduation and at time of entry into the United States.
Data source: From the 2011 American Medical Association Physician Masterfile data in Tankwanchi [37].
Fig 3.
Geography of loss: Spatial distribution of Sub-Saharan African migrant physicians across the United States.
Note: SSA-IMGs, international medical graduates trained in Sub-Saharan African-based medical schools; SSA-BFTs, Sub-Saharan African-born, but foreign-trained physicians (i.e., graduates of US and other non-SSA foreign medical schools). Data sources: Redi-Med Data Interactive Medical Database System [51]; Environmental Systems Research Institute [62]; Association of American Medical Colleges [63].
Fig 4.
Main residency institutions of Sub-Saharan African migrant physicians in the Eastern Region of the United States.
Note: Full names of residency programs appearing on the map are provided as supporting information (S1 Table). Data sources: Redi-Med Data Interactive Medical Database System [51]; Environmental Systems Research Institute [62]; Association of American Medical Colleges [63].