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Medical Education in the Sun: A Guide to the Offshore Education Industry in the Caribbean

WENR

Increasing numbers of physicians now receive their basic medical education at overseas schools that have less stringent admission requirements and operate under different regulations and quality assurance standards than medical schools in the U.S. and Canada.

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

SRHE

In 2017-18 only 34% of its graduates took employment in the region and this figure would have been boosted by the graduate deposit from a large medical school. In 2017-18 it admitted only 14% of its home students from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority region, much of which would be classified as economically deprived.

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Leading Academic Group Joins Legal Challenge Against Executive Orders on DEI Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wolfson emphasized that these programs play a crucial role in ensuring equal access to education and fostering diverse perspectives in academic discourse. These researchers fear that the Executive Orders could jeopardize crucial studies that address healthcare disparities and improve medical treatment for diverse populations.