Generalism for specialists: a medical reformation

Migration of Sri Lankan medical specialists

BACKGROUND The migration of health-care workers contributes to the shortage of health-care workers in many developing countries. This paper aims to describe the migration of medical specialists from Sri Lanka and to discuss the successes and failures of strategies to retain them. METHODS This paper presents data on all trainees who have left Sri Lanka for postgraduate training through the Pos...

Perceptions of Nigerian medical specialists on research

The current research aimed at collating the views of medical specialists on disease priorities, class and outcomes of health research in Nigeria, and draw appropriate policy implications. Structured questionnaires were distributed to consent 90 randomly selected medical specialists practising in six Nigerian tertiary health institutions. Participants' background information, relative disease pr...

Reregistration of medical specialists in the Netherlands.

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Focusing on generalism.

Workforce education issues for international medical graduate specialists in anaesthesia.

International medical graduate (IMG) specialists in anaesthesia need education to be part of the assessment process for pre-registration college fellowship. Fellowship of the anaesthetic college is required in Australia for registration as a specialist in this field. Marked differences exist between local trainees and IMG specialists in terms of training, stakes of the exam and isolation of pra...