1127 



TABLE 20.-COMPARISON OF FOREIGN PHYSICIANS ADMITTED TO THE UNITED STATES WITH NUMBER OF U.S_ 



MEDICAL GRADUATES 1962-71 



Source: Rosemary Stevens and Joan Vermeulen, "Foreign Trained Physicians and American Medicine," U.S. Depart- 

 ment of Health, Education, and Welfare, Bureau of Health Manpower Education, Division of Manpower Intelligence, June 

 1972, p. 96. (DEW Publication No. NIH 73-325.) (Figures on immigrants and exchange visitors are from the U.S. Depart- 

 ment of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service. Figures of U.S. graduates from "Medical Education in the United 

 States," Journal of the American Medical Association, 218, 1971, 1221.) 



Educational Exchange of Foreign Students and Scholars in the United 

 States 

 An area for potential brain drain is through the educational ex- 

 change of foreign students and scholars. An indication of U.S. leader- 

 ship in advocating international educational exchange is contained in 

 the report "Open Doors, 1971" issued by the Institute of International 

 Education (HE), a private organization dedicated to international 

 educational exchange. ^^^ This report states that in 1970-71 there were 

 144,708 foreign students reported to be enrolled in United States in- 

 stitutions of higher learning. This jfigure is 9,749 more than the 1969- 

 70 total of 134,959, an increase of 7 percent. "Thus," says the report, 

 "the pattern of annual increases in the number of foreign students in 

 the United States remains unbroken." ^^^ 



DATA FROM "OPEN DOORS, 197l" ON FOREIGN STUDENTS 



"While the overall total of foreign students increased, notably by in- 

 creased enrollment from the LDCs, the numbers from Europe, Can- 

 ada, and Oceania declined. (For trends in the migration of foreign 

 students to the United States during 1953-71, see Fi^re 8.) In these 

 years for tlie first time since 1959-60, these categories showed a de- 

 crease in absolute numbers. However, student enrollment from the 

 other areas increased. In relation to the total number of students, the 



2" Institute of International Education, Open Doors, 1971: Report on International 

 Exchange (New York: September 1971), 82 pp. (Hereafter cited as Open Doors, 1971.) 

 218 Ibid., p. 3. 



