Abstract
Aware of the importance of a knowledge of children and skill in their care, the World Health Organization and the Government of India have been working together to improve the training and education of the medical in that subject. To that end the Organization has supported the work of a committee of medical educators, which has studied the teaching of child health and has published an experimental curriculum suitable for use in medical colleges in India ('Ad hoc' Committee on Education and Training in Paediatrics; WHO, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975). This article tells of the experience with that curriculum in one medical college in Central India since 1974. It is first necessary to indicate the position of medical education in the country.
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