Role of private institutions in the globalization of medical education

Abstract

In the past century, the world has witnessed the greatest increase in its population in history due to combined effects of scientific advances in medical care, greater longevity, global progress in, and other factors including a global Green Revolution and the associated benefits to agricultural productivity and a globalized food supply. The number of provider health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, and other practitioners, however, has consistently failed to keep pace with the expanding global population during this period, and has placed a strain on medical resources in the USA and many other Nations. To address the need for expansion in medical education, the further development of venues in private medical education is inevitable. Historically, much of the financial burden for professional medical education has been tied to heavily strained public sector financial support, which has limited the ability of public sector Institutions to expand in concert with the population demographics, and which sector has trailed the population trends for several decades. To this end, privately funded educational Institutions now share an increasingly greater role in development of innovative solutions to increasing the numbers of healthcare professionals worldwide, and thus ameliorating the existing progressive strain on the resources of traditional academic institutions. Institutional support.