Correction to: a comparison of physician emigration from Africa to the United States of America between 2005 and 2015

Duvivier et al. Human Resources for Health (2017)5:6 DOI 10.1186/s12960-017-0251-y CORRECTION Open Access Correction to: a comparison of physician emigration from Africa to the United States of America between 2005 and 2015 Robbert J. Duvivier1,2*, Vanessa C. Burch3 and John R. Boulet1 Correction Table 2 in the published version of this article [1] is incorrect and contains some typographical errors. The table is shown as it should be below. Author details 1 Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), Philadelphia, United States of America. 2Medical Education Unit, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia. 3Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Received: 2 October 2017 Accepted: 16 October 2017 Reference 1. Robbert JD, Burch VC, Boulet JR. A comparison of physician emigration from Africa to the United States of America between 2005 and 2015. Hum Resour Health. 2017;15:41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-017-0217-0. * Correspondence: 1 Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), Philadelphia, United States of America 2 Medical Education Unit, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Duvivier et al. Human Resources for Health (2017)5:6 Page 2 of 2 Table 2 African-educated IMGs in the US physician workforce by country of citizenship at entry to medical school 2005 2015 Number % of total Number % of total % change 3655 34.27 4189 30.92 +14.61 NIGERIA 2203 20.66 3232 23.85 +46.71 SOUTH AFRICA 1633 15.31 1485 10.96 −9.06 GHANA 547 5.13 730 5.39 +33.46 ETHIOPIA 355 3.33 666 4.92 +87.61 EGYPT a UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 313 2.94 537 3.96 +71.57 JORDAN 220 2.06 201 1.48 −8.64 SUDAN 218 2.04 410 3.03 +88.07 UNITED KINGDOM 180 1.69 208 1.54 +15.56 KENYA 151 1.42 206 1.52 +36.42 INDIA 140 1.31 184 1.36 +31.43 ZIMBABWE 113 1.06 122 0.9 +7.96 UGANDA 90 0.84 114 0.84 +26.67 LIBYA 78 0.73 278 2.05 +256.41 ALGERIA 77 0.72 100 0.74 +29.87 PAKISTAN 60 0.56 71 0.52 +18.33 MOROCCO 59 0.55 96 0.71 +62.71 CAMEROON 52 0.49 105 0.77 +101.92 SYRIA 52 0.49 72 0.53 +38.46 LEBANON 48 0.45 45 0.33 −6.25 Other sub-Saharan 173 1.62 200 1.48 +15.61 Other African (non sub-Saharan) 59 0.55 64 0.47 +8.47 Other (non-African) 188 1.76 234 1.73 +24.47 Total sub-Saharana 5535 51.90 7270 53.66 +31.35 Total African (non sub-Saharan) 3928 36.83 4727 34.88 +20.34 Total other (non-African) 1201 11.26 1552 11.45 +29.23 a nations in bold are considered Sub-Saharan Africa total numbers for Table 2 differ from Table 1 because of missing citizenship information <0.05% of the physicians did not have citizenship information coded in the ECFMG database  (...truncated)