Successes and Challenges of Malawi’s Only Medical School

International Journal

Croat Med J. 2009 April; 50(2): 189–191 Apr 01, 2009

“The successes and challenges that medical education faces in Malawi have been documented elsewhere (3-5). Let me start with the successes. The first was the very establishment of the medical school. The skepticism of the 1970s and 1980s turned into the optimism of the 1990s: Malawi currently boasts of its own medical school. In fact, the people who had argued that poor countries need not have their own medical schools were just wrong.”

Author
Adamson S. Muula

Region
Eastern Africa

Country
Malawi

Topic
Other

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