THE NEED FOR TRANSFORMATION OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND PATIENT CARE IN ETHIOPIA

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Abraham Haileamlak

Abstract

Worldwide, med ical education seems to be in a unending state of unrest. However, the Ethiopian medical education in
it’s nearly half a century history still follows traditional curricula and mainly limited to producing general
practitioners. Co mpared to the population and the size of the country, the number of graduates per annum was small as
the number of medical schools was very few. Worsening the situation, most of the graduates travel abroad looking for
better life and further tainting. As a result, the pool of clinicians went downhill during the last decade.

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Abraham Haileamlak

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