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The challenge of excellence in community health services has been taken up by medical educators in Colombia. Confronted with a nation where the primary indicators of disease mortality and morbidity (cardiovascular disease and infant mortality) were characteristic of First and Third World patterns, respectively, the Ministry of Health and La Asociacion Colombiana de Facultades de Medicina (ASCOFAME), representatives of institutions of medical education, have collaborated to conduct a needs assessment of the country's health needs and devised an implementation plan designed to better address the needs of the majority of that nation's people. As a model, the Colombian reorganization of medical education is an example which could be emulated by the U.S. where policy makers are struggling with troublesome questions of cost, equity and quality.

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Author

Deborah E. Bender

Publisher

Springer Netherlands; Springer-Verlag; Springer (Kluwer Academic Publishers); Reidel; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1573-1200)

Published

1989

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)