Frustrated public health officials in Zambia and other developing countries call this the "internal brain drain".
This would result in a massive "internal brain drain", where our best are taken away to expend their talents and energies chasing a piece of leather.
The current situation is nothing short of an internal brain drain: the north of England has some of the best universities in the world, yet their graduates have an awkward habit of fleeing the region after graduation.
Moreover, recent research by the World Bank does indeed suggest that "internal brain drain" is a worry in some countries, especially those with few doctors and nurses.However, in many huge net exporters of doctors and nurses, such as India and the Philippines, an internal brain drain is hardly much of a worry, because there are plenty of medics to go around.
Some worry that a flood of foreigners into developing countries will divert money and expertise from state health systems that are already overwhelmed an internal brain drain that will worsen care for ordinary people.
Professor Denis Safran of the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris said that it was notoriously difficult to predict the consequences of the kind of injuries, including internal brain lesions, suffered by Mr Schumacher.
Mr. Mogae, who spoke at a day-long conference on the lessons of Botswana's experience sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research organization in Washington, said this internal brain drain had been compounded by the departure of doctors and nurses for other countries.
The expansion of the tourist sector and the increase in private enterprise resulted in an internal "brain drain" as professionals employed by the state, including health care staff, teachers, technicians, and engineers, migrated into hard-currency sectors and abandoned salaries and wages in the national currency (moneda nacional).
Interestingly, some internal brain structures can be distinguished.
Further development should allow mimicking of internal brain structures and dynamic functions, such as blood circulation.
Therefore, skilled-foreign-worker programs are causing an "internal brain drain in the United States," he argues.
