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The Training of Foreign Medical Graduates

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  • Kenneth E. Livingston, M.D.

THE United States, Canada and Great Britain have made important contributions to the training of health personnel for the medically less developed regions of the world. The extensive medical training facilities of these countries have been utilized by graduate students and physicians from many regions, with advantages acruing to the hosts as well as to the foreign nationals. Within recent years, however, there has been increasing concern over the high rate of loss of fully trained health manpower from the medically developing nations, particularly to the United States and Canada.Each year more than 3000 foreign medical graduates enter the . . .

Funding and Disclosures

* Presented in part at the Congress of Neurological Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, June 23–25, 1966.

‡ The overall figures for the licensing of foreign medical scholars are documented. However, there are no absolute figures for the rates of loss of individual countries since at present it is difficult to trace trainees who are not under some governmental support program.

During six years' work in the field of overseas education, many colleagues have contributed to the formulation of concepts outlined in this paper. No collaboration has been more gratifying and rewarding than that with Mr. Norman Dott, emeritus professor of neurologic surgery, University of Edinburgh.

Author Affiliations

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

†Assistant professor of neurosurgery, University of Minnesota Medical School.

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