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Forty years of allocated seats for Sami medical students - has preferential admission worked?
qualifications: MA
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, supplied data, collected data, supervised data collection, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts
position: Postgraduate student
Norway
qualifications: MA
contribution: contributed to drafts, designed the project, devised survey tool, statistical analysis
position: Postgraduate student
qualifications: MD, PhD
contribution: designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts, literature review
position: Professor
Norway
Toralf Hasvold is Professor of General Practice at The University of Tromsø, Norway. Chair of Rural Health Department.
He has been a General Practitioner for more than 20 years in rural areas. His research interest includes epidemiology of muscle and skeletal problems in general practice, use of telemedicine, health service research in primary health care and international/global health.
He works with health policy development in Botswana (Regional Medical Officer), WHO Public Health Advisor to the Ministries of Health in Armenia and Georgia, WHO concultant in Belarus. Collaboration projects with Northern State Medical University of Archangles, Russia. Visiting Professor at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.
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