Health manpower development : the need for specialist training in Sierra Leone

This study was undertaken to determine the number of doctors trained and those willing the train in the various clinical and public health specialities. There are in all 170 trained doctors in various specialities. Of those; only 70 (41 per cent) are in government service. A projection of the number of specialist doctors expected by 1977 shows that there will be less doctors specializing in the clinical disciplines and more in the public health sector. Surgeons and public health specialists tend to prefer working for the government than doctors in other specialities. Doctors in general prefer to specialize in public health than in the clinical disciplines. The consequences of those findings are discussed

The need for a training programme in community-oriented education for health personnel in Sierra Leone

There is a pressing need for a community-oriented medical training in Sierra Leone to cope with the country's health problems. To enable a community-oriented training programme to be succesfully implemented; it is first necessary to clarify the basic concepts of a community-oriented training programme in order to remove some misconceptions. The following is therefore an attempt aimed at clarifying the situation by giving a brief backgroung to the health needs of Sierra Leone followed by a definition of community-oriented medical education