A comparison of physician emigration from Africa to the United States of America between 2005 and 2015

Table 4 Medical Schools with >100 Graduates in the US physician workforce (2005 data)

	Country	Number	% of total African-educated IMGs	Number of domestic citizens^a (category 1)	% of school cohort	Number of non-domestic African citizens (category 2)	% of school cohort	Number of US citizens (category 3)	% of school cohort	Number of non-domestic non-African citizens (category 4)	% of school cohort
University of Cairo	Egypt	1 590	15.95	1 366	85.91	19	1.19	40	2.52	165	10.38
Ain Shams University	Egypt	1 282	12.82	1,116	87.05	25	1.95	33	2.57	108	8.42
University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa	994	9.98	912	91.75	17	1.71	19	1.91	46	4.63
University of Alexandria	Egypt	916	9.17	789	86.14	33	3.60	24	2.62	70	7.64
University of Ibadan	Nigeria	738	7.37	633	85.77	13	1.76	16	2.17	76	10.30
University of Cape Town	South Africa	614	6.15	506	82.41	59	9.61	11	1.79	38	6.19
University of Nigeria	Nigeria	492	4.92	440	89.43	4	0.81	21	4.27	27	5.49
University of Lagos	Nigeria	475	4.74	408	85.89	8	1.68	21	4.42	38	8.00
University of Ghana	Ghana	434	4.33	425	97.93	0	0.00	0	0.00	9	2.07
Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia	243	2.43	232	95.47	4	1.65	1	0.41	6	2.47
University of Benin	Nigeria	235	2.35	211	89.79	4	1.70	14	5.96	6	2.55
University of Khartoum	Sudan	184	1.85	170	92.39	5	2.72	6	3.26	3	1.63
Obafemi Awolowo University	Nigeria	184	1.84	157	85.33	2	1.09	11	5.98	14	7.61
Assiut University	Egypt	140	1.40	134	95.71	2	1.43	2	1.43	2	1.43
Makerere University	Uganda	139	1.39	81	58.27	54	38.85	1	0.72	3	2.16
University of Pretoria	South Africa	122	1.22	116	95.08	0	0.00	2	1.64	4	3.28
University of Nairobi	Kenya	121	1.21	112	92.56	5	4.13	1	0.83	3	2.48
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology	Ghana	117	1.17	111	94.87	0	0.00	2	1.71	4	3.42
University of Ilorin	Nigeria	117	1.17	103	88.03	0	0.00	5	4.27	9	7.69

^aDomestic means students who hold citizenship from the same country as their medical school is located in

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