The need for more medical schools in medically underserved regions in Africa

Africa struggles with the double burden of disease, bearing the highest disease burden in the world and also having the most severe health workforce shortage. Only four countries on the continent meet the WHO-recommended density of 4.45 health workers per 1000 people. This physician shortage has bee...

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Autores principales: Brimmo, Farida Oluwabukola, Babatunde, Abdulhammed Opeyemi, Ezefuna, Naomi Nmesoma, Kanu, Mary Sathela, Biziyaremye, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9678807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36426098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104967
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description Africa struggles with the double burden of disease, bearing the highest disease burden in the world and also having the most severe health workforce shortage. Only four countries on the continent meet the WHO-recommended density of 4.45 health workers per 1000 people. This physician shortage has been attributed to a variety of factors including shortfalls in medical education and medical schools' capacities. This commentary aims to reveal the gap and ‘underrated’ problem of inadequate medical schools and poor utilization of existing ones. Recommended solutions calling for the need for urgent improvement in medical education in Africa are highlighted in the paper.
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spelling pubmed-96788072022-11-23 The need for more medical schools in medically underserved regions in Africa Brimmo, Farida Oluwabukola Babatunde, Abdulhammed Opeyemi Ezefuna, Naomi Nmesoma Kanu, Mary Sathela Biziyaremye, Patrick Ann Med Surg (Lond) Commentary Africa struggles with the double burden of disease, bearing the highest disease burden in the world and also having the most severe health workforce shortage. Only four countries on the continent meet the WHO-recommended density of 4.45 health workers per 1000 people. This physician shortage has been attributed to a variety of factors including shortfalls in medical education and medical schools' capacities. This commentary aims to reveal the gap and ‘underrated’ problem of inadequate medical schools and poor utilization of existing ones. Recommended solutions calling for the need for urgent improvement in medical education in Africa are highlighted in the paper. Elsevier 2022-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9678807/ /pubmed/36426098 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104967 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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