The major policy argument encompassing ethical aspects of such recruitment arises with the shifting paradigm of IMG mobilization (16).
The top two ‘source’ countries of IMGs in the 1970s—United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland—have been replaced by South Africa and India (5,16,17).
Parenthetically, the AIDS epidemic in South Africa has largely been attributed to a severe shortage of physicians due to ‘brain drain’ to developed countries including
Canada and has fuelled global debates about whether it is ethically justified to recruit IMGs from countries which themselves are suffering from acute shortage of trained physicians (13,17,18).
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