The latest report of the Financial Policy Institute (IFP), the analytical unit of the Slovak Finance Ministry, concludes that Slovakia has been losing in great numbers the most talented and educated young citizens. Medical faculties are ranked at the top when it comes to the number of university graduates leaving Slovakia, followed by technical ones. For example, between 2010 and 2013, one in five fresh holders of the MUDr title left this country. I still remember a post on Facebook from last year of an association of medical students which hired a bus for those from the medical faculty in Košice to come to Bratislava for a job fair organised by an agency recruiting mainly for German hospitals.
The consequences have been visible for some time already.