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OTTAWA - The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, today announced federal funding of over $1.5 million to the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) to strengthen the postgraduate medical education system. The funding will help provide physicians in training with the necessary skills to meet the health care needs of Canadians.

"Our government is working to strengthen Cana...
FOREIGN medical students could soon buy training places in Queensland Health, potentially shutting out local students, secret Government documents reveal.

A Queensland Health medical advisory panel will look at developing a policy with Queensland medical schools to sell internships overseas – possibly for up to $200,000.

But the panel has also expressed concern about international medical gradua...
Australian Medical Students Association Reports that New South Wales medical graduates are unable to obtain internships in New South Wales is cause for serious concern says the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA).
AMSA President, Ross Roberts-Thomson said “local graduates must be guaranteed internships in order to further their training and contribute back to the healthcare system.”

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CENTRE FOR HUMAN GENETICS
Bangalore
Short Course on Clinical Cardio-vascular Genetics
30 - 31 January 2010


Faculty

Ruth Newbury-Ecob (Bristol, UK), Dhavendra Kumar (Cardiff, Wales), Perry Elliott (London, UK), Krishna Kumar (AIMS, Kochi), G R Chandak and K Thangaraj (CCMB, Hyderabad), Jayarama Kadandale and Meenakshi Bhat (CHG, Bangalore) and others

Provisional Programme

Day 1 Saturday, Janu...