Strengthening research capacity through the medical education partnership initiative: the Mozambique experience
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Strengthening research capacity through the medical education partnership initiative: the Mozambique experience
BACKGROUND Since Mozambique's independence, the major emphasis of its higher educational institutions has been on didactic education. Because of fiscal and human resource constraints, basic and applied research activities have been relatively modest in scope, and priorities have often been set primarily by external collaborators. These factors have compromised the scope and the relevance of loc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Resources for Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1478-4491
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-11-62