student / teacher ratio in medical education

Dear friends,

In Turkey there is growing debate between Universities and Ministry of Health on student / teacher ratio and Medical School's student intakes capacities... We are feeling a heavy pressure to increase intake.. For instance my faculty get 300 students per year and staff number is 450.. Staff is required to use 1/3 their time for undergradute and postgraduate teaching and should spend rest for services and research... Due to local circumstances this is not reality especially for clinical deptartments ( we estimated more than a half workint hours they spend for service)..

I have done a simple search in literature (pubmed,ISI, eric, google scholar)..There is few article on topic and mostly generic or policy discussions...

Do you have any published or unpublished data, fact sheets, formulas, ideas, country reports, etc regarding the issue?

Thank you very much for your sharing in advance
H.İbrahim Durak
MHPE 2004