Highly-skilled migration from Turkey: Medical students

The Covid-19 outbreak has shown what important role of healthcare professionals, who is the most important element of the healthcare system, play in social institutions. In addition, various news in the media about the young population immigrating from Turkey every day, TUIK statistics, sharing the experiences of people who migrate and try to migrate on social media indicates that Turkey needs to develop more effective social policies regarding high-quality migration in this age of increasing mobility. reveals. This study focuses on medical students due to the education they receive, the social status of the profession, and the fact that they are at the center of current debates. The study will enable us to understand the phenomenon of high-qualified migration with the views of career goals, health system, social and economic conditions, as well as the tendency of physician candidates who are still in the education stage to migrate. At the same time, it will try to establish a relationship between migration and the situation of the medical profession in Turkey and will try to understand the effects of the economic and social problems of medicine mentioned in current discussions on the thought of immigration. For this reason, it will try to deal with the phenomenon of high quality migration abroad in the context of the participants' own worlds of meaning and experiences, using a qualitative research approach that allows understanding a limited social world.