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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Barbados Tightens up the Practice of Medicine

Yesterday's report in the Brigetown Barbados newpaper, the Daily Nation brought attention to plans for change being proposed by that islands' Ministry of Health. The Government is planning to tighten up the practice of medicine in two respects:
Minister of Health Donville Inniss stated it would soon become mandatory for doctors to continue their medical education to stay on the register and continue practicing medicine.

"Medicine is a very dynamic field and one has to continue to read, research and analyse matters in order to keep abreast..."

In conjunction, "We are going to establish, for the first time, a specialist register which will indicate who qualifies to be registered as a specialist in the medical profession," Inniss stated. Click on the title for the full news report.

Labels: Barbados, Caribbean, Caribbean medical education, continuing education, government regulations, medical education, medical registry, medical specialties, practice of medicine

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Striving for Quality in Tertiary Education in the Caribbean

The 6th Annual CANQATE 2009 conference:
Balancing Quality and Quantity: The Global Challenge for Tertiary Education was held in Bridgetown, Barbados October 6~8, 2009.

However if you missed the event or you wish to revisit it, click on the title to view pictures, and access plenary sessions & presentations of the conference, in .pdf and powerpoint, from their website.

Note the paper presented on Medical Education in the Caribbean
by Lorna Parkins Director CAAM-HP.

CANQATE stands for Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education.

Labels: accreditation, Barbados, CAAM-HP, CANQATE, Caribbean, Caribbean medical education, education conferences, medical education, tertiary education

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