Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In 1957, the A.M.A., together with the American Hospital Association, Association of American Medical Colleges and Federation of State Medical Boards, created the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. Its job: to set standards for foreign-trained doctors, administer qualifying tests. To win permission to work in a U.S. hospital...
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Softened Attitude. Top hospitals like New York's Bellevue which has about 100 foreign physicians, can choose the most promising foreign medical school graduates, who have less difficulty getting past the examination hurdle. The pinch comes in hospitals that have no affiliation with a medical school, need A.M.A.A.H.A. accreditation...
"Many a Progeny-Many an Agony," read posters on Bombay buses last week. Teeming India is officially committed, more than any other nation in the world, to birth control. At 1,800 "family planning centers" across this nation of 403 million, social workers fit diaphragms and counsel sari-swathed village...
Fortnight ago, in sprawling Maharashtra state, local officials decided to celebrate All-India Family Planning Day, Dec. 18, by completing the sterilization of 15,000 male volunteers in a single six-week period. Last week Maharashtra's Public Health Minister Homi Taleyarkhan reported that with the campaign less than...