ABSTRACT
Medical education is one of the most widespread and elite professional educations in the field of education. It is widely respected, considered a remunerative career with greater prestige, and often presumed to be a ticket to emigration. There is a growing number of medical students who aspire to migrate to developed countries to advance better clinical experience, employment opportunities, and pecuniary benefits. Thus, the significant migration after the undergraduate courses continues to skew the doctors’ distribution. The present study attempts to examine why minority medical students aspire to migrate to different countries post-COVID-19. The present study argues that students with different forms of capital, whose immediate relatives are working abroad, especially in medicine, are most likely to aspire to go abroad for higher studies and subsequent settlement in the host country because of the ‘epistemological awareness.’ Most medical students perceive that migrating to developed countries would promote their educational credentials with higher clinical experiences, eventually providing them with employment security. The present study highlighted that post-COVID-19, medical education cultural capital has accelerated and shaped the idea of migration to developed countries.
