Dean's office, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2010 Jun 16;10:167. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-167.
Lebanon suffers from a large scale emigration of physicians coupled with an oversaturation of the physician job market. Lebanon is currently witnessing an expansion of its medical education capacity with the establishment of new private medical schools, raising the fears of a worsening market oversaturation.
The neighboring Arabian Gulf countries are suffering from a serious shortage of clinicians and academicians. In spite of their enormous investments in educational, clinical and research collaborative initiatives with some of the most renowned North American medical schools and institutions, their ability to recruit and retain highly qualified clinicians and academicians remains a major challenge. Lebanese universities have the opportunity to establish triangular collaborations with the Gulf regional medical centers and their North American partners. They could achieve this goal by tapping into the globalized and high quality Lebanese physician workforce and consequently regionalize healthcare delivery in the Middle East.
By recruiting its globalized and high quality physician workforce to establish collaborations with the Gulf regional, Lebanon could become a regional "academic hub".
黎巴嫩的医生大量移民，加上医生就业市场供过于求，导致这种情况。随着新的私立医学院的建立，黎巴嫩目前正在扩大其医学教育能力，这引发了对市场过度饱和的担忧。
邻国海湾阿拉伯国家正面临临床医生和学者的严重短缺。尽管他们在与一些最著名的北美医学院校和机构的教育、临床和研究合作方面进行了巨额投资，但他们招募和留住高素质临床医生和学者的能力仍然是一个主要挑战。黎巴嫩大学有机会与海湾地区的医疗中心及其北美合作伙伴建立三角合作关系。他们可以通过利用全球化的高质量黎巴嫩医生劳动力来实现这一目标，从而实现中东地区的医疗服务区域化。
通过招募全球化的高质量医生劳动力与海湾地区建立合作关系，黎巴嫩可以成为一个地区的“学术中心”。
