Commonwealth Medical Association.

The Commonwealth Foundation Medical Electives Bursary--1999.

The Expulsion of South Africa and Rhodesia from the Commonwealth Medical Association, 1947–70

In 1970 the medical associations of South Africa and Rhodesia (now, Zimbabwe) were expelled from the Commonwealth Medical Association. The latter had been set up, as the British Medical Commonwealth Medical Conference, in the late 1940s by the British Medical Association (BMA). These expulsions, and the events leading up to them, are the central focus of this article. The BMA's original intenti...

HIV/AIDS: a commonwealth emergency; the challenge to medical education.

Between 33 and 35 million people are infected with HIV worldwide. Nine of the most heavily infected countries are in the Commonwealth, with other countries in the Caribbean and Asia following suit. The heads of state are at last showing a growing awareness of the problem. At the Durban AIDS conference the Commonwealth states issued a joint statement expressing grave concern at the devastating s...

Implications of off-shore medical schools in the Commonwealth Caribbean.

Facilities existing and planned in the University of the West Indies for training the medical manpower requirements of the Caribbean Commonwealth are adequate and can be extended to meet additional future needs. No valid justification exists, therefore, for the development in the area of off-shore medical schools promoted by profit-oriented entrepreneurs who have little or no experience in medi...

The Commonwealth of Cells

We are often asked to recommend a small book on physiology that gives a simple and readable outline, and which can be understood by those who have had no training in the sciences. This book will answer the purpose admirably. As the title indicates, the author keeps before us throughout the book the cellular structure of the various tissues of the body, with the result that a more uniform and co...