Use of volunteers to help launch a pediatric residency program in Laos
Bibliographic record
Abstract
When five Lao physicians began their training in a 3-year pediatric residency program in Laos in late 1997 it launched the first full-time postgraduate medical education in the history of the country.For a poor country with 5 million people, half of them children, and only seven fully trained pediatricians, the prospect of soon adding five new pediatricians per year has substantial implications for child health.This residency grew out of 10 years of collaboration between the Lao Faculty of Medical Sciences and a wide-ranging group of volunteer faculty members recruited from Case Western Reserve University and many other academic centres in the United States, Canada and Thailand, with the help of an allvolunteer organization, Health Frontiers.The collaboration grew slowly, first with a pediatric curriculum for medical students, then a series of intensive short courses in pediatrics, and finally a government-approved residency program, based on local health needs and consistent with international standards.This article reviews some of the academic, cultural, political, organizational and financial factors involved in the project.It suggests that the low-cost, incountry, volunteer-assisted residency program being developed in Laos may emerge as an effective and affordable model for introducing postgraduate medical education in other less developed countries.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".