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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 126, No. 9

Articles | March 01, 1970

Determining Factors in Migration and Adaptation of Mexican Psychiatrists to the United States: A Mexican Viewpoint

GUIDO BELSASSO; LUIS LARA TAPIA; HÉCTOR LARA TAPIA

Am J Psychiatry 1970;126:1318-1321.

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Psychiatrist and heads outpatient services, Instituto Nacional de Neurologia (S.S.A.), Mexico, president-elect, Sociedad Mexicana de Neurologia y Psiquiatria

Director, department of psychological research, Hospital Psiquiátrico Fray Bernardino Alvarez (S.S.A.), Mexico

Resident psychiatrist, Instituto Nacional de Neurologia (S.S.A.), Mexico

1970, American Psychiatric Association

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The authors discuss their study of the 100 Mexican psychiatrists who have trained in the United States; only 46 have returned to Mexico. Factors in their failures to return include the greater financial and professional opportunities outside Mexico, poor personal ties in Mexico, and marriage to a non-Mexican.

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