International health teaching: a survey of 100 medical schools in developed countries.
The survey reported here was designed to assess the availability of international health teaching to medical students in developed countries. For the purpose of this enquiry international health teaching was defined as any instruction on comparative morbidity or mortality, service provision, demographic change and disease prevalence in non-industrialized developing countries. The results indicated that this topic is not regarded as being of high priority in the majority of institutions.
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Department of Community Health, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand.
D003479:Curriculum; D003906:Developing Countries; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D014943:Global Health; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching