It means training doctors and nurses and public health professionals.

The Government would reduce the payments now made to teaching hospitals for the costs of training doctors.

The job of training future doctors should be too important to leave to chance.

The administration wants to trim $35 million from a $235 million program for training doctors at children's hospitals.

But setting up hospitals and training doctors at prestigious medical schools in the East and locally were only part of the health care scene.

Brazilian medical schools have little commitment to training doctors for the health needs of the community as most will become specialists.

They say residencies serve an important social purpose in training doctors and providing care for patients.

Patients and the residents themselves would be better served by ending all Federal subsidies for training doctors.

It also said the state should no longer guarantee the indirect costs of training doctors.

"Medical schools are now getting very interested in training doctors to be culturally sensitive and to understand diversity."