Quality of medical training and emigration of physicians from India

Table 3 Total physician emigration fraction for USA and UK for 1955–2002, by university ranking

Ranking/Quintiles	Emigration Fraction (%)
	Based on Student Choice-Based Ranking	Publications per Undergraduate
I(lowest)	3.89 (3.73, 4.05)	7.21 (7.01, 7.41)
II	9.02 (8.80, 9.23)	6.78 (6.61, 6.95)
III	13.45 (13.26,13.64)	11.06 (10.90,11.22)
IV	13.45 (13.26,13.64)	11.06 (10.90,11.22)
V(highest)	12.53 (12.30,12.75)	14.74 (14.55,14.93)
Total	11.50 (11.41,11.59)	11.32 (11.24,11.40)
Number of Universities	56	64

Note: University ranking method same as Table 2. The emigration fraction (F) was calculated as $F = \frac{E_{U K} + E_{U S}}{G}$ , where E _UKis the cumulative number of graduates who migrated to the United Kingdom, E _USis the cumulative number of medical graduates who migrated to the United States, and G is the cumulative number of medical graduates.

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