OBJECTIVES Responding to the serious shortage of physicians in rural areas, the Japanese government has aggressively increased the number of entrants to medical schools since 2008, mostly as a chiikiwaku, entrants filling a regional quota. The quota has spread to most medical schools, and these entrants occupied 16% of all medical school seats in 2016. Most of these entrants were admitted to me...

In response to Ian Lustick’s article on Israel’s migration balance in the previous issue of Israel Studies Review, I question the author’s (lack of) theoretical frame, data handling, and conclusions, all set up against a robust narrative. I show that, until 2010, Israel displayed a positive, if weakened, migration balance and that immigration trends continued to reflect conditions among Diaspor...

Traditionally, family doctors who had an interest in academic scholarship had no choice but to work at academic teaching centres, where teaching went hand in hand with the scholarly aspects of an academic appointment. However, in the past several years medical education has expanded beyond the boundaries of the academic teaching centres into the surrounding communities. New community-based facu...