Educating a new generation of doctors to improve the health of populations in low- and middle-income Countries

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Celletti, Francesca ^a   Reynolds, Teri A ^a,d   Wright, Anna ^b   Stoertz, Aaron ^c   Dayrit, Manuel ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Independent Contributor   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SKILL; SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; TEACHING; TRAINING; URBAN POPULATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; STATISTICS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 80055047604     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001108     Document Type: Article

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