Programme evaluations have found that trainees and graduates of applied epidemiology training programmes form solid networks in the country's health systems, with the majority of them remaining in public health in their home countries [ 18, 20, 22, 29].
Although each region of FETPs is unique in its development and governance, all regional networks collaborate with TEPHINET and all share the same mission: to increase public health capacity by supporting strong, effective and sustainable applied epidemiology training programmes for health professionals [ 8, 9].
A Masters in Public Health (MPH) programme using the applied epidemiology training programme model had been started in 1994 through support of the Public Health Schools without Walls (PHSWOW) Programme of the Rockefeller Foundation and has continued with support from CDC's Division of Global Public Health Capacity Development (DGPHCD) (formerly Division of International Health (DIH) [ 10, 18- 20].
Although funding for research remains highly competitive, it feels as if there are more opportunities, and in my own field of petroleum geoscience, there are tremendous opportunities to develop applied research and training programmes, in a sense to catch up with the UK.
This means employers, universities and careers services must come together to positively encourage women to apply to graduate training programmes.
Twenty-six Japanese medical graduates, first completed the two-year national obligatory initial postgraduate clinical training programme and then applied to three specialty training programmes - internal medicine, general surgery, and emergency medicine - in a Japanese teaching hospital, where they underwent the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME -competency-based MMI.
In addition, we can implement the training programmes that will build the capacity of the Kenyan judiciary to apply its new wildlife laws through the courts.
Quality assurance and quality improvement of training programmes apply worldwide.
Most of these criticisms of training for developing countries also apply to public health training programmes for developed countries.
EPs who can fulfil the KNMG requirements (as applied to all medical specialty training programmes) to be emergency educators must take these positions.
