Respiratory medicine training in Malta

In Malta, respiratory medicine is quite a popular speciality. It is attractive because of the interesting case mix and the interventional element of the speciality. To understand the training system in Malta, it helps to first have some background knowledge of Malta. Malta is a tiny Mediterranean island, just 316 km2 in area, with one main teaching hospital, Mater Dei Hospital, with a second smaller hospital on the sister island of Gozo. Scattered across the island are regional health centres, and two smaller oncology and rehabilitation hospitals. These cater for the 420 000 people living there. With tourism, the population increases significantly. We communicate in both Maltese and English, and teaching (both at medical school and at a postgraduate level) is in English.
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