The experience of medical training and expectations regarding future medical practice of medical students in the Cuban-supported Medical School in Timor-Leste

Authors: Cabral J, Ferrinho P, Valdes AC
Publication Year: 2015
Journal: Human Resources for Health
Link: https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-015-0004-8%20

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse the professional expectations and profile of medical students at the Cuban-supported School of General Medicine, in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the National University of Timor-Leste. A piloted, standardized questionnaire, with closed- and open-ended questions, was distributed to registered medical students attending […]
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Urban Planning and Health Inequities: Looking in a Small-Scale in a City of Cape Verde

Authors: Alves D, Amado M, Cabral J, Correia A, Craveiro I, Delgado AP, Gonçalves L, Lapão LV, Santos Z, Simões R
Publication Year: 2015
Journal: PLoS One
Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142955

The lack of high-quality data to support evidence-based policies continues to be a concern in African cities, which present marked social, economic and cultural disparities that may differently impact the health of the groups living in different urban contexts. This study explores three urban units—formal, transition and informal—of the capital of Cape Verde, in terms of overweight/obesity, cardiometabolic risk, physical activity and other aspects related to the urban environment.
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Scaling-up the medical work- force in Timor-Leste: Challenges of a great leap forward

Authors: Buchan J, Cabral J, Dussault G, Ferrinho P
Publication Year: 2013
Journal: Social Science & Medicine
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23932856

The health services system of Timor-Leste (T-L) will, by 2015, add 800 physicians, most of them trained in Cuba, to the 233 employed by the national health system in 2010-2011. The need for more physicians is not in discussion: poor health indicators, low coverage and utilization of services, and poor quality of services are well documented in T-L.
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The training and professional expectations of medical students in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique.

Authors: Cabral J, da Silva F, Dussault G, Ferrinho P, Fresta MJ, Fronteira I, Mercer H, Rodrigues A, Sidat M
Journal: Human Resources for Health
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=The+training+and+professional+expectations+of+medical+students+in+Angola%2C+Guinea-Bissau+and+Mozambique

BACKGROUND:
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the professional expectations of medical students during the 2007-2008 academic year at the public medical schools of Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, and to identify their social and geographical origins, their professional expectations and difficulties relating to their education and professional future.
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The experience of medical training and expectations regarding future medical practice of medical students in the Cuban-supported Medical School in Timor-Leste

Urban Planning and Health Inequities: Looking in a Small-Scale in a City of Cape Verde

The training and professional expectations of medical students in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique.

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