This literature review describes the impact of health professional schools with a social
accountability mandate by identifying characteristics of medical education found to impact …

Background Increasingly, medical students are trained at sites away from the tertiary
academic health centre. A growing body of literature identifies the benefits of decentralised …

En la educación médica contemporánea la necesidad de alcanzar una adecuada
integración de conocimientos es universalmente aceptada. Sin embargo resulta …

Background 'Grow your own'strategies are considered important for developing rural
workforce capacity. They involve selecting health students from specific rural regions and …

METHODS Surveys about abortion attitudes, beliefs and practice intentions were conducted
in 2005 and 2007 among 1,308 medical school students attending the University of Cape …

Developing and retaining a high-quality medical workforce in low-resource countries is a
worldwide challenge. The Filipino Ateneo de Zamboanga University–School of Medicine …

Background: There is an urgent need to scale up global action on rural workforce
development. This World Health Organization-sponsored research aimed to develop a Rural …

Introduction: Hundreds of millions of people worldwide lack access to quality health
services, largely because of geographic and socioeconomic maldistribution of qualified …

Objective To determine, in one low income country (Nepal), which characteristics of medical
students are associated with graduate doctors staying to practise in the country or in its rural …

The globalization of problem-based learning (PBL) in health professions education has
been both celebrated and criticized. Using a critical narrative review approach, underpinned …