[The teachings of the Center for Education and Research in Tropical Medicine and Health. Analysis and pedagogic developments].

Three different types of education and teaching are offered by the Education and Research Center in Tropical Health and Medicine: To 7th and 8th year students in medicine, given morning and afternoon over a period of 13 weeks, this type of education in tropical health and medicine requests a high degree of participation from the student; it is very well structured in its objectives and program with more than 50% of directed studies and guided training. Evaluation is carried out both in and at the end of sylabuses. To male and female nurses, teaching is given morning and afternoon over a period of 5 weeks.

[Pancreatic pathology in black Africans (excluding diabetes)].

Number of cases of pancreatitis obviously increases in african Black not so much acute forms but mainly chronic calcifying forms of which ethylism represents the main etiology. As in cancers and pancreatic cysts, symptomatology shows no particular characteristic in Negroes. Moreover, because some deficiencies in the sanitary network, lethality remains at a high level.