It is sobering to realise that sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) needs one million additional health care workers to provide for the minimal health care needs of its people. This primarily reflects the huge disjunction between the number of health care workers in the region (2% of the world's health care workforce) and the burden of disease it carries (24% of global disease). In this edition of the journal, Greysen et al. provide an overview of the literature addressing health sciences education in SSA, in which they identify three major themes that have been, and continue to be, the focus of authors writing from the region: (i) capacity building for increased doctor training; (ii) innovations in doctor training, and (iii) the retention of doctors once trained.
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