Global Health Care Education

"The question of personnel to deliver health services is really the key question." Paul Farmer, in Salud

 

 

Train local health care professionals to take look after their people. Lets stop focusing on medical missions trips.

 

 

 

 

International Medical Schools

Ateneo de Zamboanga University - Philippines

Walter Sisulu medical school - train people rurally

 

Cuba has 11 medical schools and 2 nursing schools around the world.

The Latin American School of Medicine has students from 27 countries, 4 of them African.

 

Venezuela is setting up "micro-medical schools" around the country, where students train in their own countries.

 

 

 

 

Partnerships Around the World

 

We, as health care professionals, have a tremendous amount to offer health care students aroudn the world.

 

 

 

 

 

Brain Drain

 

Many African countries now have more doctors and nurses working in richer countries abroad than they have at home, research shows. (BBC article, Jan 10, 2008) author response