The Ministry of Health often sees the top hundred medical entrance exam candidates from Iran emigrate.
The Deputy Minister of Research and Technology of Iran’s Ministry of Health announced that most of the top candidates in the medical sciences entrance exam emigrate from the country.
Shahin Akhundzadeh told ISNA news agency on Monday that most of the top hundred candidates in the medical sciences entrance exam go abroad because we are unable to retain them.
He added that Iranian elites in basic sciences usually return after some time, but this does not happen in clinical fields, and these individuals are not willing to return to the country.
These statements come while in June 2023, the head of the Health and Treatment Commission of the Parliament said that about ten thousand Iranian specialist and subspecialist doctors have obtained migration permits in the last two years, with Arab countries being their main destination.
A year later, in December 2024, the Minister of Science announced that 25 percent of university faculty members have also emigrated in recent years, a statistic that indicates the widespread exodus of scientific and medical elites from the country.