Medical education in the developing world - new approaches needed.
Existing health care systems fail to reach more than 20 per cent of people in most developing countries. Change of emphasis towards primary health care will be achieved at best slowly, if ever, through the existing university teaching structure. Provision needs to be made for the on-going training of all health personnel who work in rural areas and slums. Developments in distance teaching techniques, if applied to health, should be both effective and cheap.
Professor of Tropical Child Health, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK.
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