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. 2017 Jun 26;15:41. doi: 10.1186/s12960-017-0217-0

Table 3.

Medical Schools with >100 Graduates in the US physician workforce (2015 data)

Country Number % of total African-educated IMGs Number of domestic citizensa (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 Faculty of Medicine Egypt 1 680 12.39 1 466 87.26 17 1.01 52 3.10 165 9.82
Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine Egypt 1 439 10.61 1 262 87.70 15 1.04 48 3.34 114 7.92
University of Alexandria Faculty of Medicine Egypt 1 063 7.84 937 88.15 17 1.60 31 2.92 78 7.34
University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences South Africa 917 6.76 826 90.08 15 1.64 19 2.07 57 6.22
University of Ibadan College of Medicine Nigeria 903 6.66 791 87.60 15 1.66 19 2.10 78 8.64
University of Nigeria Faculty of Medicine Nigeria 697 5.14 630 90.39 5 0.72 28 4.02 34 4.88
University of Lagos College of Medicine Nigeria 599 4.42 525 87.65 7 1.17 24 4.01 43 7.18
University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences South Africa 544 4.01 444 81.62 54 9.93 8 1.47 38 6.99
University of Ghana School of Medicine and Dentistry Ghana 527 3.89 514 97.53 6 1.14 1 0.19 6 1.14
Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine Ethiopia 365 2.69 355 97.26 5 1.37 1 0.27 4 1.10
University of Benin School of Medicine Nigeria 362 2.67 327 90.33 2 0.55 15 4.12 25 6.87
University of Khartoum Faculty of Medicine Sudan 302 2.23 282 93.38 6 1.66 8 2.21 21 5.80
Obafemi Awolowo University College of Health Sciences Nigeria 291 2.15 63 21.65 5 1.66 9 2.98 6 1.99
University of Tripoli Faculty of Medicine Libya 225 1.66 184 81.78 7 3.11 18 8.00 16 7.11
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology School of Medical Sciences Ghana 217 1.6 204 94.01 5 2.30 3 1.38 5 2.30
Assiut University Faculty of Medicine Egypt 180 1.33 174 96.67 1 0.56 3 1.67 2 1.11
University of Ilorin College of Health Sciences Nigeria 173 1.28 157 90.75 1 0.58 5 2.89 10 5.78
University of Nairobi School of Medicine Kenya 161 1.19 153 95.03 4 2.48 1 0.62 3 1.86
Gondar College of Medicine and Health Sciences Ethiopia 152 1.12 150 98.68 2 1.32 0.00 0.00
St. Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine Senegal 151 1.11 0 0.00 3 1.99 124 82.12 24 15.89
Jimma University College of Public Health and Medical Sciences Ethiopia 149 1.1 148 99.33 0.00 1 0.67 0.00
Makerere University School of Medicine Uganda 142 1.05 95 66.90 37 26.06 1 0.70 9 6.34
University of Pretoria School of Medicine South Africa 120 0.88 114 95.00 2 1.67 2 1.67 2 1.67
University of Jos Faculty of Medical Sciences Nigeria 112 0.83 85 75.89 1 0.89 2 1.79 24 21.43
Ahmadu Bello University Faculty of Medicine Nigeria 110 0.81 84 76.36 2 1.82 3 2.73 21 19.09
Mansoura University Faculty of Medicine Egypt 109 0.8 101 92.66 0.00 2 1.83 6 5.50
University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences Zimbabwe 109 0.8 70 64.22 9 8.26 8 7.34 22 20.18

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