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Published Online: March 1970

Determining Factors in Migration and Adaptation of Mexican Psychiatrists to the United States: A Mexican Viewpoint

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

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The authors discuss their study of the 100 Mexican psychiatrists who have trained in the United States; only 46 have returned to Mexico. Factors in their failures to return include the greater financial and professional opportunities outside Mexico, poor personal ties in Mexico, and marriage to a non-Mexican.

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American Journal of Psychiatry
Pages: 1318 - 1321
PubMed: 5413210

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Published in print: March 1970
Published online: 1 April 2006

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Psychiatrist and heads outpatient services, Instituto Nacional de Neurologia (S.S.A.), Mexico, president-elect, Sociedad Mexicana de Neurologia y Psiquiatria
Director, department of psychological research, Hospital Psiquiátrico Fray Bernardino Alvarez (S.S.A.), Mexico
Resident psychiatrist, Instituto Nacional de Neurologia (S.S.A.), Mexico

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