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Abstract
For 104 years the American University of Beirut (AUB) has maintained a continuously
active medical school. Among the problems now faced by this institution and its graduates
are: insufficient numbers of doctors in the countries of the Near East; emigration
of physicians in training because of inescapable demands for specialty certification
not available at home; weak support of specialty care in the region to encourage their
return; a dearth of local medical leadership sensitive to the academic and professional
vigor arising from medical research; and poverty of educational attitudes well suited
for critical scientific thinking. Highly developed minority interests tend to obstruct
detached insight into these problems. University medicine of the entire Near East
shares these difficulties, and a review seems wise because there is still an important
role for American identity and support of health education in the Near East. Potential
for medical specialty care is emerging and the medical schools and health care officials
of the region have an opportunity to encourage it.
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Publication history
Accepted:
April 4,
1972
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© 1972 Published by Elsevier Inc.
