Domestic trainees.

They other team says that bringing doctors from abroad will improve quality standards in the long run, but it can cause exactly the opposite (remember when they said that difference in capabilities would express itself in wages differentials?). Countries can bring doctors for the sole purpose of reducing costs, not to improve quality. If the wages of national doctors are too high, countries are tempted to hire international doctors. International doctors come from different backgrounds, take different courses and have work experience related to specific diseases of their home countries. You cannot put aside the specific knowledge nationals receive in their education and training. At the end, if nationals are displaced by internationals because of greater price competition, quality can be threatened. The proposition claims: "it is only scientific descovery [sic] that a richer country would want to be asscociated [sic] with domestic personnel" which is in fact not true. Countries can give more importance to the development of new technologies to protect their citizens and to the patents and income from new developments in research. In fact, research may have nothing to do with the nationality of the researcher, as the casde of german born Albert Einstein, making his achievements in the US. The other factor the proposition blithely fails to see is the unability of the research industry to absorb all the national doctors that would be displaced. They also ignore the difficulties for doctors to instantly pass from practice to research, since both jobs in most of the cases differ significantly. Therefore, if the countries actively recruit medical personnel just to lower the cost and not to improve the quality, national doctors will have a hard time to find a job that would remunerate them for their specific knowledge. Lastly, they admit "richer countries are the ones that tend to export medical research, such as keyhole surgery for example", but they disregard the fact that their proposal will only exacerbate this problem. Since, there are not enough doctors in poorer countries to take care of basic needs (as currently admitted by representatives and specialists from the most developed countries like Louis Michel, the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid[[http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/482&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en]]), research and development is relegated. The proposition may try to deviate your attention talking about the essential differences between doctors trained for practice and those that are researchers. However, the decision to dedicate yourself to practice as a doctor in a poor country has more to do with the lack of funding for research, than incapability or lack of interest in the dedicating your life to research. In fact, "Researchers in developing countries are poorly paid. Many have to work in private practice to make ends meet" [[http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1118622&blobtype=pdf]]. To exacerbate this issue would be extremely harmful and it can even lead to a decline in the scarce research already being done to cater the needs of poorer nations as we further explain in our 6th argument. Active brain draining is certainly not the solution.