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Con: pediatric anesthesia training in developing countries is best achieved by out of country scholarships
Author(s) -
WALKER ISABEAU A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2008.02844.x
Subject(s) - medicine , specialty , developing country , training (meteorology) , medical education , nursing , family medicine , economic growth , physics , meteorology , economics
Summary Medical migration is damaging health systems in developing countries and anesthesia delivery is critically affected, particularly in sub‐Saharan Africa. ‘Within country’ postgraduate anesthesia training needs to be supported to encourage more doctors into the specialty. Open‐ended training programs to countries that do not share the same spectrum of disease should be discouraged. Donor agencies have an important role to play in supporting sustainable postgraduate training programs.