Postgraduate Nutrition Education in India

Scenario of Postgraduate Medical Education in Community Medicine in India

The objectives and goals of Postgraduate medical education in Community Medicine are to produce competent specialists to manage the teaching departments in the Medical colleges, or to manage health services and national health programmes at various levels or to conduct biomedical research in the discipline of community medicine. It is expected that the specialist so trained will be able to mana...

Postgraduate education in rheumatology.

Women's education can improve child nutrition in India.

Child malnutrition has long been recognized as a serious problem in India, but national-level data on levels and causes of malnutrition have been scarce. Hence, during 1992-93, a National Family Health Survey was carried out to examine the levels and determinants of child malnutrition in the country. More specifically, this survey estimated the levels of child malnutrition and examined the ef...

Leadership in postgraduate medical education.

their core PG 1–3 training. Although Dr. Kuhn’s suggestions have merit, our past history suggests that attempting to employ the CA3 year to develop perioperative specialization is likely not to be successful. Conversely, our internal medicine colleagues routinely direct individuals into 2and 3-yr fellowships after completion of a 3-yr internal medicine residency. By restructuring the training c...

Postgraduate medical education in Australia.