How medical education holds back health equity

The alternative would have been to centre equity-promoting primary health care tailored to diverse local needs and built on Indigenous health systems, knowledge, and social organisation. [...]Ibadan medical school's curriculum was perceived by the founders of Ife medical school as unresponsive to the health needs of most Nigerians. Before the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978, Ife medical school recognised primary health care as integral to ensuring a health system that was close and responsive to local communities. The Ife experiment faltered partly because the medical school operated within the broader context of Nigeria's colonial university system.