STANDARDS OF MEDICAL EDUCATION

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• Document Release Date: October 30, 2001
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• Publication Date: August 22, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Available on loan from the CIA Library is a report prepared by the World
Medical Association from information received from various national medical
associations concerning current trends in the standards of medical education.
'The report includes information relative to qualifications;'organization and
number of medical' schools in each ootmtry; selection of applicants; curriculum;
pre-clinical, and clinical training; internship and ethical cor}duct.
Participating countries include: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada,
(china, Chile, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Erie, France, Greece, Hungary,
~celand, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain,
?weden, Switzerland, UK, and US.
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In an effort to study the current trend in the
standards of medical education a questionnaire.was prepared by the
World Medical Association and sent to the various national medical
associations comprising its membership. The questionnaire included
questions relative to qualifications; organization. and number of
medical schools in each country; selection of applicants; general
scheme of curriculum; preclinical training; clinical training; ex-
aminations; internship or practice under supervision; ethical con-
duct and student organizations.. Twenty-six (26).national medical
associations returned answers to this questionnaire.
QUALIFICATIONS
It would seem from the answers received from the
national. medical associations that medical degrees -and diplomas
are awarded in the Netherlands and Spain by the State or Ministry
of Education. Luxembourg has no provision for awarding degrees
or diplomas as it has no medical school, and in the remaining
twenty-three (23) countries degrees or diplomas are awarded by the
universities or medical schools. In Belgium, Eire, France and
Great Britain, countries having universities or medical schools
awarding degrees, diplomas or degrees are also awarded by either
a licensing corporation or throuSh the Ministry of Education.
All the countries except Australia have official
enactments or regulations governing the standards of. medical qua-
lification and in Australia, one State, Queensland, has official
enactment s .
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SCHOOLS urn i~1 (Char
MEDICAL The replies from the twenty-six (26) countries
cover a total of 238 universities and medical schools
and 18 preparatory or'pre-medical schools. Norway re-
ported that at present -their accommodations and number
are inadequate, but will be adequate when tho school,
now under construction, is ready for operation; seven
(") national medical associations, Belgium, Czechoslo-
Numbers vakia, Hungary, Iceland, Netherlands, Spain and Switzer-
land report adequate number of schools and accommoda-
tions in schools. In the United States the American
Medical Association reports that while the number of
schools and accommodations are reasonably adequate there
is room for a few additional schools, which are in the
process of establishment. Fourteen (1) associations
felt that either the number of schools or the accommo-
dations and teaching staff are inadequate (see,Table II,
page 3-4). Three (3) associations (Cuba, Prance ,and
Luxembourg) did not answer this question.
In all except one country (India) the medical
schools constitute faculties of.universities. In India
Relation- they are provided larger by the state although some are
ship to provided by voluntary bodies. Great Britain and the
Univer'- United States report a few independent or private schools
sities in addition to those associated with universities, and
ten (10) associations (China, Cuba, Denmark, Eire, France,
Iceland, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) re-
port state or local aid to medical schools.
All but two (2) national medical associations
Teaching (Eire anlcl-France) roport that medical schools are at-
Hospitals tached to or associated with hospitals specially or-
ganized for toaching purposes.
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in all the countries fror which replies were re-
ceived the majority of medical schools are open to both
men and women. India has three (3) schools for women
only; Chile has one (1) school for men and the United
States has three (3) segregated schools.
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In the selection of applicants for admission to
the medical course, four (Li.) nat zonal medical associa-
tions (Belgium, Eire, France and Netherlands) report
there is no specific selection except in certain schools
in Belgium and one (1) school in Eire in which written
examinations are used. Six (6) national medical asso-
ciations (Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain,
India and the United States) report that interviews are
used in the selection of students and Chile reports the
interview as a method of selection in use in one (1)
school; three (3) associations (Canada, India and the
United States) report the use of intelligence or aptitude
tests while Groat Britain reports their use experimentally,
and Cuba, that they are at present being considered.
Fifteen (15) national medical associations report the
use of written, oral or both wri,tsn and oral examina-
tions as a method of selection of applicants; Belgium
reports that they are used in certain universities; Fif-
teen (15) associations resort tha review of class records
of previous school work as a method of selection. (See
Table III pages 5-7). Only one (1) association (Canada)
reports tho use of all four meths?ds of selection of ap-
plicants; the associations in China, Czechoslovakia,
Great Britain, India and the United States report use of
three (3) of the four methods; six (6) (Bulgaria, Chile,
Denmark, Hungary, Now Zealand ani Switzerland) use two
of the methods, and nine (9) associations report only
one method of selection of applicants in their country.
(For specific details see Table III pages 5-7).
The usual ac