Abstract
The World Federation of Neurology (WFN) is the international body representing the
specialty of neurology in more than 100 countries/regions of the globe. The WFN was
organized as a federation of national neurologic societies in 1957. A primary goal
of the WFN is to assist low-resource countries in providing meaningful education for
its neurologic health care providers and thus improve the neurologic health of its
citizens. During the last decade the WFN has promoted the Neurology Education in Latin
America establishing different strategies.
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Publication history
Published online: September 14, 2010
Accepted:
July 21,
2010
Received:
April 6,
2010
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© 2010 Published by Elsevier Inc.
