What makes medical graduates practise close to home?

摘要

As with sea turtles who disappear into the ocean from their natal beaches to reappear years later and be counted, it would be nice to radio-tag physicians to find out where they come from and where they go. The research reported by Mathews and associates in this issue1 does the next best thing: the authors trawled alumni lists and medical registers to see on what beaches former medical graduates of Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) eventually landed after residency training. It seems that, compared with earlier trends, fewer landed on beaches south of the 49 th parallel.