| The numbers of qualified medical personnel trained in the WHO African Region still do not meet the demand. The countries in the region depend on nonnationals for about 60% of doctors and 70% of teaching staff, and on outside training institutions for the education of 43% of their medical students. A stricter, more rational approach to planning, based on a quantitative assessment of the existing situation, and the development of a curriculum more suited to the individual country's needs (rather than a carbon copy of a European curriculum are recommended) |