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Should I stay or should I go? Mobility and migration among psychiatric trainees in Europe – EFPT Brain Drain Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M. Pinto da Costa ,
E. Biskup ,
A. Giurgiuca ,
J. Kaaja ,
Ö. Kilic ,
T. Mogren ,
M. Stoyanova ,
V. Banjac ,
S. Tomori  and
E. European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees
M. Pinto da Costa*
Affiliation:
Hospital de Magalhães Lemos, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
E. Biskup
Affiliation:
Universitätsspital Basel, Universitätsspital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
A. Giurgiuca
Affiliation:
Carol Davila, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
J. Kaaja
Affiliation:
University of Eastern Finland, Hospital District of Eastern Savonia, Savonlinna, Finland
Ö. Kilic
Affiliation:
Beykent University, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey
T. Mogren
Affiliation:
Länsvuxenpsykiatri Falun/Säter, Allmänpsykiatriska kliniken, Säter, Sweden
M. Stoyanova
Affiliation:
Sv. Naum, University Hospital in Neurology and Psychiatry, Sofia, Bulgaria
V. Banjac
Affiliation:
University Clinical Center, Clinic of Psychiatry, Republic of Serpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
S. Tomori
Affiliation:
Mother Teresa, University Hospital Center, Tiranaa, Albania
E. European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees
Affiliation:
EFPT, EFPT, Brussels, Belgium
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Workforce migration of mental health professionals seems to have a significant impact on mental health services, both in the donor and host countries. Nevertheless, information on migration in junior doctors within Europe is very limited. Therefore, the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) has conducted the Brain Drain Survey.

Objectives

To identify, in junior doctors training in psychiatry, the impact of international short-term mobility experiences, towards a future workforce migration across countries, exploring its patterns and reasons.

Methods

In this cross-sectional international study, data were collected from 2281 psychiatric trainees in 33 countries. All participants answered to the EFPT Brain Drain Survey reporting their attitudes and experiences on mobility and migration.

Results

Only one-third of the trainees had a short-mobility experience in their lifetime, being education the main purpose for these experiences. Interestingly, the main predictors for future migratory tendency were not only the having a income and being dissatisfied with this income, but having a short-mobility experience. In fact, people that had short-mobility experiences were two times more likely to express a migratory tendency. Trainees that went abroad were predominantly satisfied with their experiences, reporting that these influenced their attitudes towards migration, positively.

Conclusions

These findings show that short-term mobility has a positive impact into future long-term migration, increasing its probability.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Keywords

DoctorsTrainingMobilityMigration
Type
EW257
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S176
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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