International Handbook of Medical Education

ABDUL W. SAJID was Head of the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Medical Education and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education in the College of Medicine at the time of his death in 1992. He was a member of the Expert Panel Group on Health Manpower of the World Health Organization, and he served as Executive Secretary of the Governing Board of the National Council for International Health.uCHRISTINE H. McGUIRE is Professor Emerita in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, where she served as Associate Director and Head of Research and Evaluation from 1961 to 1987. She is internationally known as a lecturer and consultant to medical schools and certifying bodies.REBECCA MONROE VEACH is Editor and Staff Associate, Department of Medical Education, and Assistant to the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.LAURA R. AZIZ is a Research Specialist with the Center for Health Services Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, and was formerly a Research Associate with the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.LINDA K. GUNZBURGER is Professor and Associate Dean of Curriculum/Educational Research and Development at The Chicago Medical School.

• Illustrations Foreword by George E. Miller, MD An Overview of Medical Education in the Late Twentieth Century by Christine H. McGuire Evaluation and Change in Medical Education by Marjorie P. Wilson Australia by Raja Bandaranayake and Phillip Godwin Belgium by J. Cassiers Brazil by Eliana Claudia Ribeiro and Luiz Antonio Santini Canada by Eva Ryten The Commonwealth (English-Speaking) Caribbean by Harold A. Drayton Chile by Pedro Rosso and Eugenio Arteaga The People's Republic of China by Ma Xu Czech and Slovak Federative Republic by Josef Vysohlid and Vaclav Janousek Egypt by Nabila Hidayet France by F. Bonnaud, A. Vergnenegre and J. M. Chabot Germany by Hendrik van den Bussche Hungary by Gabor Szabo and Ferenc Bojan India by Shridhar Sharma, Santosh Kacker and B. V. Adkoli Israel by Moshe Prywes and David M. Mirvis Italy by Vittorio Ghetti and Alessandro Martin Japan by Daizo Ushiba Malaysia by Sharifah H. Shahabudin Mexico by Jose Laguna, Octavio Castillo y Lopez and Jose de Jesus Villalpando The Netherlands by Peter A. J. Bouhuijs Nigeria by O. Ogunbode Pakistan by Naeem A. Jafarey Poland by Andrzej Wojtczak Russia (Former USSR) by Felix Vartanian South Africa by Joseph H. Levenstein Thailand by Tongchan Hongladarom United Kingdom by Laura R. Aziz and Michael S. Cullen United States of America by Robert F. Jones and M. Brownell Anderson Venezuela by Pablo Pulido and Roberto Rondon Appendix A: General Country Demographics 1989 Appendix B: Medical School Demographics by Country Appendix C: Admission Policies and Requirements by Country Appendix D: Policy Making Bodies with a Role in Medical Education Appendix E: Professional Organizations with a Role in Medical Education by Country Appendix F: Governmental Agencies with a Role in Medical Education by Country Selected Bibliography Index