By Rebecca Vesely | July 26, 2010
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Based on personal experience, Ashok Kumar is an expert on international medical education. Kumar obtained his medical degree in India, completed his residency in the United Kingdom and now practices and teaches family medicine in San Antonio.
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By Rebecca Vesely | July 26, 2010
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Healthcare management education across the globe is also getting a closer look. The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education is studying how and where healthcare management education is being taught around the world.
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A new government steps into power and immediately mounts an overhaul of the nation's healthcare system of historic proportions. The changes are promised to improve the efficiency and quality of care while eliminating waste in the system. This is Britain now, not the U.S. circa 2009.
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The U.S. has “remained inherently dependent” on international medical school graduates to sustain its ranks of general surgeons, but the number of graduates from foreign programs practicing here is declining and this could create “a crisis of urgency” and exacerbate a projected general surgeon shortage, concluded a report in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
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The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has approved reactivation of the Chalk River (Ontario) nuclear reactor, paving the way for increased availability of molybdenum-99, a uranium processing byproduct used to produce a medical isotope used in most imaging procedures.
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Among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, real annual per-capita health spending grew 4.2% between 2000 and 2008, on average, compared with real annual per-capita growth in gross domestic product of 2.2%, newly released figures show.
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Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas, said it has pulled out of the bidding for Healthscope, a Melbourne, Australia-based company that operates 48 hospitals in Australia and a pathology business in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore.
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Five U.S.-based companies reportedly are in a three-way competition to snap up Healthscope, a Melbourne, Australia-based owner or manager of more than 40 hospitals and a pathology business. But Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp., one of the competitors, may have done more harm than good to its market position by joining the battle.
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Three potential buyers—including Tenet Healthcare Corp.—have initiated competitive bids to snap up Melbourne, Australia-based Healthscope, which owns or manages 48 private hospitals throughout Australia. The company also owns a pathology business with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.
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No other country in the world can beat the U.S. in medical technology. No other country spends as much for it either.The mantra "Americans have the best medical care in the world" is frequently recited by U.S. policymakers and clinicians, according to a study published in the May/June issue of the journal Health Affairs that compares the quality of care in five English-speaking countries. But international data--limited though it is--places the U.S. in the bottom quartile of industrialized countries in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality, according to the report.The best...
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