The history of medical education in Malaysia is a relatively short one. From 1905 until 1964, Malaysian doctors were trained either at the King Edward the VII Medical College in Singapore or overseas in other Commonwealth countries. In 1964, the Faculty of Medicine was set-up in the University ofMalaya in Kuala Lumpur and admitted its first class of 46 students (Faculty of Medicine, University ...

Factors influencing the supply and demand of nurses are complex and involve issues such as the shifting health care delivery system, an aging nursing workforce, and the changing demographics of society. Projections for the supply and demand of the nursing workforce reveal an emerging nursing shortage (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2000a; Bednash, 2000; Buerhaus, 1998; Buerhaus, S...

BACKGROUND There is little data on the preferences of pharmacy students as regards their future pharmacy job choices in Africa and this has created concerns amongst licensing bodies, employers and also the institutions they graduate from. OBJECTIVE Career choices and factors that influence these choices of pre-registration pharmacists were assessed. METHODS Final and fourth year students fr...