Training of doctors and delivery of health care in developing countries

In the past two decades, the training of doctors in developing countries has become confused with the delivery of health care. There should be a balance in the financial aid directed to rural and to urban areas; at present rural areas receive too much. The urban hospital, and especially the national teaching hospital, where most of the teaching, care of the seriously sick, and research are done, is in decline. In the training of doctors, the vital clinical approach, oriented towards the individual patient, is losing ground.