Experience in training art specialists

Impact of International Training of Medical Specialists for underdeveloped Countries: Brazil– Angola experience

Introduction: Angola has about 28 million inhabitants andapproximately 0.21 physicians/1,000 population. There is onlyone specialist in some medical fields in the whole country whilethere is not even one specialist in some other fields. The objectiveof this study is to investigate the significance of the CooperationProgram for Foreign Doctors (Brazil) and its impac...

Training Pediatric Emergency Medicine Specialists in India.

The 180-year-old, Madras Medical College, to which the Institute of Child Health (ICH) is affiliated, has an annual intake of 250 under-graduates and 54 pediatric post graduates. Established in 1997, our Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) was equipped by Japan’s International Cooperation Agency [2]. To sustain the project, the Tamil Nadu government sanctioned a faculty position in PEM. Over, ...

Training physician nutrition specialists: a fellow's perspective.

1. Committee on Clinical Practice Issues in Health and Disease. The role and identity of physician nutrition specialists in medical schoolaffiliated hospitals. Am J Clin Nutr 1995:61:264-8. 2. McLaren DS. Nutrition in medical schools: a case of mistaken identity. Am J Clin Nutr 1994;59:96()-3. 3. Anonymous. Position of The American Dietetic Association: nutnition-an essential component of medic...

Experience and Experiment in Art

[Training of specialists in the Chilean national health services].

Several institutions, such as the Ministry of Health, Universities, the Chilean Medical Association, Scientific societies and public opinion, recognize that there is a deficiency of specialized physicians in Chile. To overcome this shortage of specialists, the Ministry of Health, along with universities, is developing diverse initiatives to train specialists and cope with the requirements of th...