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Doctors of Indian Origin
There are currently (as of 2005) 40,838 doctors of Indian origin in the United States of America and they account for 5% of all doctors in the USA and 20% of all International Medical Graduates employed in the US workforce. It is noteworthy that India provides the largest number of International Medical Graduates to the US in absolute numbers. With 59,523 physicians of Indian origin working in the English speaking Western world (the US, UK, Australia and Canada combined), India is by far the single largest source of emigre physicians in the world.
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That's all she wrote.
One wonders why so many LEAVE their homeland.
I know that I SURE don't want to go back there and would NEVER want to live there, but India is their homeland, where their ENTIRE family, ancestry, friends and heritage are.
That is a lot to give up and doesn't speak well of India. You would think that the Indian government or board of medicine would do more to keep their native M.D. sons and daughters from abandoning India.
That IS what they are doing.
India graduates way too many Doctors, way too many Engineers, way too many Computer programmers, way too many college graduates of all disciplines. Indian economy can not absorb that many so many emigrate. There are more students in Indian universities than all other countries except perhaps China.
Indians have good familiarity with English language. That is why there are so many of them in UK, USA, Australia, and all former British colonies. The largest circulation of an English language newspaper in the world is Times of India.