The experience of OECD countries with respect to the impact, regulation and policy approaches to international migration of physicians suggests that physician movement between countries may confer benefits to both home and host countries in specific cases.
The Lebanese physician workforce offers an illustrative example of the shifting dynamics of international migration of physicians.
Migration of physicians has become a prominent issue as a result of the increasing globalisation of the physician workforce.
There has been much debate recently about several issues related to the migration of physicians from developing to developed countries.
Migration of physicians is increasingly affecting OECD countries.
The migration of physicians is a worldwide phenomenon [ 1].
These driving forces of international migration of physicians suggest that migration is likely to continue.
Migration of physicians is not necessarily beneficial from a social point of view.
This study showed that salaries were not the sole factor that caused the migration of physicians.
GATS seems to have had a limited impact so far on the migration of physicians.
