Development of Open Borders, Strategies to Strengthen Brain Circulation and Attract Elites in the Health Sector; A Scoping Review Study

The emigration of intellectual capital has grown significantly in recent years. When the experts of the countries reach the production stage, by leaving the country, they transfer their intellectual and economic ability to the destination countries. One of the ways to reduce the damage caused by this phenomenon is brain rotation. The current study was carried out with the aim of investigating strategies to strengthen the circulation of brains and attract elites in the health system.

The present study was conducted as a scoping review. Search and analysis was done using Prisma protocol. The content of articles was analyzed through content analysis in thematic method using MAXQDa20 software. All the contents related to the desired concept were coded in the articles, then, based on the conceptual connection, they were placed in subcategories and categories, and finally they were placed in the main categories.

The initial result of the article search was 2574 articles. After removing duplicate items, 675 items were removed due to being unrelated and 13 articles were removed due to lack of access to the full text, and 33 articles were used for analysis. After summarizing, the codes were placed in 13 subcategories and 3 main categories, which include 1- governance reforms - macro policy making, 2- strengthening and reforming university policies, 3- cultural and social strategies.

The findings show that Iran can pay more attention to the rotation of brains and use the intellectual capital of Iranians abroad to a greater extent. This will be achieved when a written road map is prepared, approved and implemented to strengthen communication and culture.