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Journal Articles and Reports

28/6/2021

 
  
Doctor Retention in a COVID-world: an opportunity to reconfigure the health workforce, or “Plus ça change plus c’est la meme chose”? A Response to Commentaries on “Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the Battle
International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM)
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Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the Battle
International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM)
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​The impacts of training pathways and experiences during intern year on doctor emigration from Ireland
Human Resources for Health
06 November 2019
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​Retaining Our Doctors: Medical Workforce Evidence, 2013-18​
RCSI Health Workforce Research Group
May 2018
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​“We've all had patients who've died …”: Narratives of emotion and ideals of competence among junior doctors
RCSI Repository
August 2018
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‘You do not cross them’: Hierarchy and emotion in doctors' narratives of power relations in specialist training
ScienceDirect
August 2017
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​Factors influencing trainee doctor emigration in a high income country: a mixed methods study
Human Resources for Health
​2017

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Presentations

17/5/2020

 
Results from the 2018 NCHD Retention survey
Forum of Irish Postgraduate Medical Training Bodies
11th February 2020
Professor Ruairí Brugha
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​Results from the 2018 Intern Tracking and NCHD Retention surveys
21st meeting of the MacCraith Strategic Review of Medical Training and Career Structures Implementation Monitoring Group
13th December 2019
Department of Health
Professor Ruairí Brugha
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Results from the Medical Career Tracking survey of NCHDs
Consultation meeting with Forum of Irish Postgraduate Medical Training Body Trainee Reps
28th November 2019
Department of Health
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Wellbeing among trainees, interns and non-training scheme doctors
Who is at risk?

Lead NCHD Workshop
HSE National Doctor Training and Planning
20th September 2019
Professor Ruairí Brugha
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Wellbeing among trainees, interns and non-training scheme doctors
Lead NCHD Workshop on Wellbeing
HSE National Doctor Training and Planning
5th April 2019
Professor Ruairí Brugha
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“Joining the conversation ...... planning the workforce through evidence”
Inaugural Strategic Workforce Planning and Intelligence Conference 
Department of Health 20th February 2019
Ruairí Brugha
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Ireland’s international medical workforce: an analysis of linked medical council and medical workforce databases
Improving the monitoring of health workforce and health workforce migration
12 October 2018, OECD Paris
Ruairí Brugha
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Retaining Our Doctors: Medical Workforce Evidence, 2013-17
RCSI Health Workforce Research Group
13th November 2017
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MedTrack: A longitudinal medical career tracking study
Meeting of the Deans of Medical Schools 
20th October 2017
Professor Ruairí Brugha, RCSI
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Recent presentations

9/3/2019

 


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Recent RCSI publications on NCHDs and emigration​

21/5/2018

 
  • Gone for good? An online survey of emigrant health professionals
  • "Emigration is a matter of self-preservation"

Year 3 case study: From Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Ireland’s nursing and midwifery workforce

15/4/2018

 

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Health Workforce Ireland Publications

24/9/2017

 
​Brain Drain to Brain Gain Project

Title: Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Ireland's Two-Way Flow of Doctors 
Authors: Walsh A., Brugha R 
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=ephmrep 

Title: Ireland: A Destination and Source Country for Health Professional Migration. 
Authors: Brugha R., McAleese S. Humphries N. 2016 
http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/031616-108IrelandStudy.pdf


'Doctor Emigration Project' and 'Failure to Retain'

Humphries, N., Crowe, S., & Brugha, R. (2018). Failing to retain a new generation of doctors: qualitative insights from a high-income country. BMC Health Serv Res, 18(1), 144. doi:10.1186/s12913-018-2927-y
 
Humphries, N., Crowe, S., McDermott, C., McAleese, S., & Brugha, R. (2017). The consequences of Ireland’s culture of medical migration. Human Resources for Health, 15(1), 87. doi:10.1186/s12960-017-0263-7
 
Crowe, S., Clarke, N., & Brugha, R. (2017). 'You do not cross them': Hierarchy and emotion in doctors' narratives of power relations in specialist training. Soc Sci Med, 186, 70-77. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.048

Clarke N, Crowe S, Humphries N, Conroy R, O’Hare S, Kavanagh P, Brugha R.
Factors influencing trainee doctor emigration in a high income country: a mixed methods study.
Hum Resour Health 2017 15 (1): 66
https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-017-0239-7
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Title: Gone for good? An online survey of emigrant health professionals using Facebook as a recruitment tool
Authors: McAleese S, Clyne B, Matthews A, Brugha R, Humphries N. 2016 Human Resources for Health: 14 (S1): 34  doi: 10.1186/s12960-016-0130-y.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-016-0130-y

Title: ‘Emigration is a matter of self-preservation. The working conditions . . . are killing us slowly’: qualitative insights into health professional emigration from Ireland.”
Authors: Humphries N, McAleese S, Matthews A, Brugha R. 2015. Human Resources for Health: 13 (1); doi:10.1186/s12960-015-0022-6.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-015-0022-6

Title: Irish Trainees Continuing to Emigrate. IMJ Editorial.
Authors: Brugha R, Crowe S, Humphries N. 2015. Irish Medial Journal: 108 (9); 262
http://www.healthworkforceireland.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/10659222/irish_trainees_continuing_to_emigrate._imj_editorial._oct_2015.pdf

Title: NCHD emigration crisis and the need for consultant-delivered care
Author: Kelleher E., Brugha R. 2013 Irish Medical Journal: 106 (5): 133-4
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=ephmart


Doctor Migration Project

Title: Passing through – reasons why migrant doctors in Ireland plan to stay, return home or migrate onwards to new destination countries.
Author: Brugha R, McAleese S, Dicker P, Tyrrell E, Thomas S, Normand C, Humphries N. 2016. Human Resources for Health:14; doi:10.1186/s12960-016-0121-z.
https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-016-0121-z

Title: Predictors of career progression and obstacles and opportunities for non-EU hospital doctors to undertake postgraduate training in Ireland.
Authors: Tyrrell E, Keegan C, Humphries N, McAleese S, Thomas S, Normand C, Brugha R. 2016. Human Resources for Health: 14. doi:10.1186/s12960-016-0120-0.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-016-0120-0

Title: Applying a typology of health worker migration to non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland.
Authors: Humphries N, McAleese S, Tyrrell E, Thomas S, Normand C, Brugha R. 2015. Human Resources for Health: 13 (1); doi:10.1186/s12960-015-0042-2.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-015-0042-2

Title: “I am in a kind of stalemate”. The experiences of non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland
Authors: Humphries N, Bidwell P,  Tyrrell E, Brugha R, Thomas S, Normand C. 2014 In: Buchan J, Wismar M, Glinos IA, Bremner J. editors. Health professional mobility in a changing Europe. New dynamics, mobile individuals and diverse response. The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (World Health Organisation); 2014. p. 233-250.
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=ephmart

Title: The National and International Implications of a Decade of Doctor Migration in the Irish Context.
Authors: Bidwell P, Humphries N, Dicker P, Thomas S, Normand C, Brugha R. 2013. Health Policy: 110 (1); 29–38.
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/ephmart/40/

Title: A cycle of brain gain, waste and drain – a qualitative study of non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland.
Authors: Humphries N, Tyrrell E, McAleese S, Bidwell P, Thomas S, Normand C, Brugha R. 2013. Human Resources for Health: 11 (63); 10–1186.
http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/11/1/63

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Nurse Migration Project

Title: Nurse migration and health workforce planning: Ireland as illustrative of international challenges.
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2012. Health Policy: 107 (1); 44–53. doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.06.007.
http://www.doctormigration.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/10659222/nurse_migration_and_health_workforce_planning-_ireland_as_illustr.pdf

Title: “I won’t be staying here for long”: a qualitative study on the Retention of migrant nurses in Ireland.
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2009. Human Resources for Health: 7 (1); 68 doi:10.1186/1478-4491-7-68.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1478-4491-7-68

Title: Sending money home: a mixed-methods study of remittances by migrant nurses in Ireland.
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2009. Human Resources for Health: 7 (1); 66. doi:10.1186/1478-4491-7-66.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1478-4491-7-66

Title: Overseas nurse recruitment: Ireland as an illustration of the dynamic nature of nurse migration.
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2008. Health Policy: 87 (2); 264-72. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.12.014
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=ephmart

Title: Career Progression of Migrant Nurses in Ireland: Nurse Migration Project Policy Brief 5
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2009
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=ephmrep

Title: A Profile of Migrant Nurses in Ireland. Nurse Migration Project Policy Brief 4
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2009
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=ephmrep

Title: Retaining Migrant Nurses in Ireland II. Nurse Migration Project Policy Brief 3
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2009
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=ephmrep

Title: Retaining Migrant Nurses in Ireland. Nurse Migration Project Policy Brief 2
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2008
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=ephmrep

Title: Nurse Migration to Ireland: An Overview. Nurse Migration Project Policy Brief 1
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2008
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=ephmrep


Conference presentations

Title: Non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland: applying a typology of health worker migration
Humphries N, McAleese S, Tyrrell E, Thomas S, Normand C, Brugha R. 2014. Health Services Research. 14 (S2): 021
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1105&context=ephmart

Title: WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel.
Brugha, R. 2012.
http://www.doctormigration.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/10659222/brugha_global_code_hw_recruitment_final.pdf

Title: International Medical Graduates in Ireland: Trends, 2000-2010.
R Brugha
Irish Forum for Global Health Conference, 2012
http://www.doctormigration.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/10659222/doctor_migration_final_ifgh_febr_2012.pdf


Other publications

Title: The Feminisation of Medicine: A Qualitative Study of the Career Experiences of Female Doctors and Implications for Human Resources Management in Ireland.
Author: McAleese S. 2013. Dublin: RCSI.
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1126&context=phdtheses

Title: Through doctors’ eyes: A qualitative study of hospital doctor perspectives on their working conditions.
Authors: McGowan Y, Humphries N, Burke H, Conroy M, Morgan K. 2013. British Journal of Health Psychology 18 (4): 874–91. doi:10.1111/bjhp.12037.
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=psycholart​

Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Ireland's Two-Way Flow of Doctors

21/6/2017

 

Press Release: Ireland among top countries globally for reliance on foreign doctors

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