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Rafiq, Azhar; Merrell, Ronald C. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2005
Health care practices continue to evolve with technological advances integrating computer applications and patient information management into telemedicine systems. Telemedicine can be broadly defined as the use of information technology to provide patient care and share clinical information from one geographic location to another. Telemedicine…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Information Management, Geographic Location, Information Technology
Norcini, John J.; Mazmanian, Paul E. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2005
Physician migration is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that is intimately intertwined with medical education. Imbalances in the production of physicians lead to workforce shortages and surpluses that compromise the ability to deliver adequate and equitable health care to large parts of the world's population. In this overview, we address a…
Descriptors: Patients, Physicians, Migration, Global Approach