Medical education must put greater emphasis on public health and prevention
If future physicians are to best serve the changing health needs of patients and their communities, medical education must put greater emphasis on public health and prevention, experts say in a supplement to October's American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Medical schools should widen the pool of talent from which doctors are recruited by making it easier for youngsters from poorer backgrounds to study medicine, a report for the Government will say Labour's former health secretary Alan Milburn, the Government's independent reviewer on social mobility, accused medicine and other professions of failing to make ``any great galvanising effort'' to open their doors to disadvantaged students.