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In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Rebecca Vesely talks with Gerard Anderson, director of the Center for Hospital Finance and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore. He discusses trends in medical education overseas, how some European nations are addressing their own shortages of primary-care physicians and what the U.S. can learn from their solutions.

Read the accompanying Special Report "Foreign concepts" published in the July 26, 2010, issue of Modern Healthcare.

An interview transcript is available here.