Article ID: CBB001210688

“A Mysterious Discrimination”: Irish Medical Emigration to the United States in the 1950s (2012)

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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Ireland exported a considerable number of her medical graduates, mainly to Britain and the British Empire. After the Second World War there was a shift. The 1950s and 1960s saw an increase in the emigration of doctors to North America. The American Medical Association, worried about the possible impact upon the profession, introduced in 1950 a list of foreign medical schools which, in their view, met American standards of medical education. The failure of Irish medical schools to make this approved list brought to the surface problems in Irish medical education. This episode illustrates a number of issues raised by medical migration; recognition of qualifications and equivalency across borders; the rise of the USA as a global medical hegemonic power; the involvement of national governments; and migration as a catalyst for change in the exporting country.

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Authors & Contributors
Konuk, Kader
Vanessa Agnew
Marechaux, Toni
Alam, Eram
Rachel Kahn Best
Jane O. Newman
Concepts
Emigration; immigration
Public policy
Medicine and society
Societies; institutions; academies
Medicine and politics
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Republic of Liberia
Hamburg (Germany)
Russia
Institutions
American Medical Association
Russkaia akademicheskaia gruppa
National Association of Railway Surgeons
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
Royal Society of London
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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