Table 2.

Greatest needs for increasing the quantity and quality of medical school graduates

		Increase quality of graduates				Increase quantity of graduates
		Total answers	Greatest need	Second greatest need	Third greatest need	Total answers	Greatest need	Second greatest need	Third greatest need
	Total number of responses	281	94	94	93	277	94	94	89
	Total	91	28	38	25	96	37	38	21
Infrastructure and equipment issues	General or multiple types	40	17	17	6	52	25	20	7
	Labs	14	7	4	3	10	3	5	2
	Computers/ICT	18	1	7	10	6	0	3	3
	Teaching aids/resources	8	2	4	2	12	4	7	1
	Libraries	4	1	2	1	4	0	1	3
	Other	7	0	4	3	12	5	2	5
	Total	84	35	25	24	77	30	27	20
Faculty-related issues	General or quantity	32	12	10	10	50	24	19	7
	Salary/Quality of life issues	23	6	6	11	12	1	3	8
	Basic science faculty	10	4	4	2	5	0	2	3
	Training/pedagogy	7	5	2	0	1	0	0	1
	Faculty quality	6	4	1	1	3	1	1	1
	Clinical faculty	3	2	1	0	2	2	0	0
	Other	3	2	1	0	4	2	2	0
Clinical training sites	Total	25	3	15	7	33	9	15	9
	General	12	2	6	4	14	3	8	3
	Academic hospital	13	1	9	3	16	6	7	3
	Clinics	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3
Budgetary issues	Total	21	10	2	9	22	6	4	12
	General	14	9	0	5	17	5	3	9
	Student aid/grants	3	0	0	3	4	1	1	2
	Governmental support	4	1	2	1	1	0	0	1
Curricular issues	Total	21	7	3	11	5	3	0	2
	General/Aligned with needs	12	5	2	5	4	3	0	1
	Community-based/
	Problem-based	5	1	1	3	0	0	0	0
	PGME	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	1
	Other	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Other	Total	39	11	11	17	44	9	10	25
	Secondary education/
	admissions policies	7	3	1	3	11	2	5	4
	Research	10	3	3	4	2	0	0	2
	Linkages/Cooperation	3	0	1	2	6	0	0	6
	Administrative reform Inside
	school	5	2	2	1	3	0	1	2
	Understanding from gov't	0	0	0	0	8	5	0	3
	Student living conditions	3	0	0	3	4	1	1	2
	Other	11	3	4	4	10	1	3	6