BACKGROUND The percentage of Saudi physicians practicing in the public health sector did not exceed 22.6% in 2009, and did not reach 20% in 2006. This is despite the fact that more than 80% of the Saudi population seeks health care in the public health sector. Such a low percentage of Saudi physicians is even significantly lower in the private health sector. With a fast growing population, and ...

Sir,?On graduation one finds that when confronted with first few cases all that was taught and emphasized in medical colleges is hardly sufficient and necessary for equipping one for general practice. In fact, the knowledge that is being imparted these days in the medical institutions makes it necessary for every fresh graduate to put in quite some time to acquaint himself with the requirements...

Richard Wakeford, John Foulkes, Chris McManus, Wesley Southgate medical education (prospective students), to its providers (medical schools and their curriculum designers, postgraduate training schemes), and to its customers (medical care providers) if comparative output data on medical schools and postgraduate training were available. Without a national medical qualifying examination this is p...

Approximately 25-30% of the Nepalese population live below poverty line. Majority of them reside in a geographically inaccessible place while most of the health centers are focused in the urbanized cities of Nepal. Hence, they are deprived of quality health care at that level and need urgent attention by the concerned authorities. The government has not increased its human resource for health i...

o the best of our knowledge, medical ethics is not taught as a separate subject in Indian medical colleges. St John's Medical College has a programme.for teaching medical ethics to its undergraduate students. We describe here the structure of our programme, the syllabus and the teaching methodology. ite feel that we have an effective way of teaching medical ethics at vur medical college and wou...