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. 2015 Dec 4;13:93. doi: 10.1186/s12960-015-0090-7

Table 3.

Number of medical schools, outputs and generalist doctors [ 5 , 27 29 ]

Number of medical schools (population in millions per medical school) Outputs (new doctors/year) Medical practitioners a /10,000 population Family physicians/10,000 population Nurses and midwives/10,000 population
South Africa 9 (5.9) 1300 3.7 0.1 51
Brazil 242 (0.8) 21,395 19 0.2 76
India 398 (3.1) 52,305 7 - 17
China 980 (1.4) 192,344 14 1.2 51

aNot specialists.