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Neelakantan, Shailaja – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports that India's medical profession is in a crisis. For every 10,000 people in India there are only six doctors, compared with nearly 55 in the United States and nearly 21 in Canada. The problem is likely to get worse before it gets better. Professors are leaving medical schools for better-paying jobs in private hospitals and in…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Economic Progress, Medical Schools, Hospitals
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Takhar, Jatinder; Dixon, Dave; Donahue, Jill; Marlow, Bernard; Campbell, Craig; Silver, Ivan; Eadie, Jason; Monette, Celine; Rohan, Ivan; Sriharan, Abi; Raymond, Kathryn; Macnab, Jennifer – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2007
Introduction: The pharmaceutical industry, by funding over 60% of programs in the United States and Canada, plays a major role in continuing medical education (CME), but there are concerns about bias in such CME programs. Bias is difficult to define, and currently no tool is available to measure it. Methods: Representatives from industry and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industry, Conflict of Interest, Medical Education
Klein, Lawrence W.; Catizone, Carmen A. – 1997
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) manages the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Licensure Examination (NABPLEX). A new Scope of Pharmacy Practice study was completed in 1994, and representatives of NABP and the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities of Canada met in 1995 to discuss the possibility of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Pharmaceutical Education
Suntrup, Noreen L., Ed. – 1980
Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Pharmacy Education, which address the entire pharmacy curriculum, are presented. Contents are as follows: "Educating for the Pharmaceutical Industry," J.N. Banerjee; "Overview on Pharmaceuticals for Developing Countries," Leighton E. Cluff; "Pharmacy and the Third…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Drug Legislation, Drug Therapy, Foreign Countries