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The goal of the survey was to objectify the findings on the specified target group’s migration
tendencies, to ensure the probability of migration intention, the main destination migration
territories, the expected length of the foreign employment stay, the basic motives and barriers
of work abroad and other phenomena connected with migration.
While it is not possible to consider the survey of doctors to be representative from the
perspective of rigorous methodological criteria, the results bring a series of relevant and
previously-unknown findings that can be generalised with a certain caution to the given
population.
(3) The migration potential of Czech doctors measured by the basic question on the
intention to work abroad is high. 45% of the surveyed doctors are considering working
abroad. The probability/feasibility of the declared migration intention is already substantially
lower. The total potential (45% of those surveyed) is steeply reduced with regard to the steps
leading to realising a stay and work abroad. The reduction receives this concrete form:
a) 30% of the doctors thinking about work abroad have done nothing for this intention. It is a
group for which work abroad remains in the realm of vague, theoretical speculations;
b) Another 38% of migration-oriented doctors have also done nothing yet, but are getting
ready to do so. It is possible to designate the representatives in this group as hypotheticalprobable
migrants, that could (but not necessarily will) implement their plan under certain
conditions;
c) Roughly a third (32%) of the positively-tuned doctors has taken certain steps for realising
work abroad. In this case it can be expected that these doctors could leave the Czech
Republic in the foreseeable future with more or less probability.
The extent of the last group surprisingly corresponds to the frequency of doctors that have
already obtained specific experience in the past with a stay abroad. Approximately 30% of the
surveyed doctors have studied or worked abroad and roughly the same number (33%) of them
currently have working contacts in the framework of scientific research or other cooperation
with colleagues from other countries. This thus confirms that experience with stays abroad
tends to be a significant impulse to further migration to other countries.
(4) The degree of probability of the foreign migration of doctors can be inferred from
specific activities (steps) that the doctors perform to carry out the declared migration
intention.
The most common implementation steps to staying and working abroad were obtaining
information on the possibilities of employment abroad, approaching potential employers,
seeking employment over the Internet, which cannot yet be considered activities that could
demonstrate the actuality of migration intention.
35 doctors obtained the promise of a job (i.e. 17% of the potential migrants), 6 doctors (3%)
had taken care of living abroad and only one of the doctors surveyed has a signed work
contract. From this perspective the realistic migration potential can be estimated at
roughly in the range from 10 to 15% of the group of doctors with a positive attitude to
foreign migration. This share is 4.5 to 6.7% of the surveyed doctors in conversion to the
total number.
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