Progress on Global Reform

 

Newsletter 
August 2012
In this issue
Canadian "Innovation Collaborative" Focusing on Collaborative Leadership
South African Science Academy to Champion Health Pro Education Reform
MEPI Workshop Promotes Dialogue on Medical Education Issues in Africa
Upcoming Events

Dear Colleague,

 

Even during these summer months we have quite a few activities to report. Both of us are still frequently asked to present our Lancet report findings. One of us (JF) presented them to more than 150 students and faculty of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and University of Toronto community in Canada last month. (See story on the website). LC will be presenting a keynote on transforming health professional education next month in Thailand for the International Conference in Medicine and Public Health 2012.

 

Other commissioner colleagues are also disseminating the findings, including Barry Kistnasamy (of University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa), at a MEPI workshop in June, and coming up next month, Zulfi Bhutta (Aga Khan University Medical Center in Pakistan) and David Serwadda (former Dean of the Makerere School of Public Health in Uganda) at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

 

Our partners in the global reform effort have also been busy. The InterAcademy Foundation of the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP), led by Bernie Jones, has selected 7 countries for launch workshops to increase dialogue and spur health professional education reform. You can read about South Africa's workshop below. Nigeria has also held one.

 

And the four innovation collaboratives that are a key part of Patrick Kelley's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education of the US Institute of Medicine have all kickstarted their educational reform plans. You can read more about what Canada's is doing in the story below. On our website are stories about the plans of the other three innovation collaboratives: South Africa, India and Uganda.

 

We have added Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/HealthPros21) and Twitter ( https://twitter.com/#!/HealthPros21) pages to our communications outreach. Please consider "liking" or "following" us for the most up to date news of our endeavors. Or visit our website at www.healthprofessionals21.org.

 

 Best regards,

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Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health and Commission Co-chair 

 

Lincoln Chen, President, China Medical Board and Commission Co-chair

Canadian "Innovation Collaborative" Focusing on Collaborative Leadership

The Canadian Interprofessional Health Leadership Collaborative (CIHLC)--one of four "innovation collaboratives" selected by the U.S. Institute of Medicine's Global Forum--is focusing on collaborative leadership for health system change. The collaborative includes four partner universities led by the University of Toronto and networks across Canada. They are building on successes already achieved in health professions education and plan to develop and implement a learner-focused and competency-based educational model. Read more.

South African Science Academy to Champion Health Pro Education Reform

The Academy of Science of South Africa hosted a workshop to discuss transforming the education of health professionals for the 21st century on 24 July 2012. South Africa is one of seven countries selected to hold workshops as part of the InterAcademy Medical Panel's (IAMP) effort to disseminate the Lancet Commission report recommendations to its member medical academies. Participants--representing academia, health profession associations, and the Department of Health--unanimously agreed that the report provides valuable recommendations and that South Africa needs to take urgent concrete actions to reform the education of its health professionals. Read more.

MEPI Workshop Promotes Dialogue on Medical Education Issues in Africa

The U.S. government-sponsored PEPFAR Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) held a workshop for discussing medical education best practice and innovations at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa, 6-8 June 2012. The workshop aimed to increase the dialogue on medical education within the MEPI network in five focus areas: community-oriented education, faculty development, competency-based education, technology-assisted education, and postgraduate medical education. Speakers included Lancet report Commissioner Dr. Barry Kistnasamy of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, who provided an overview of the commission's findings. Read more.

Upcoming Events

Check out upcoming conferences and workshops related to the education of health professionals on our website. For example, the 2012 Southeast Asian International and Indian National Conference on Health Professions Education will be on "Social accountability: Responding to societal needs through quality assurance and accreditation in health professions education" in India 5-8 September. There will be a conference/workshop titled "Educating Health Professionals for a New Century" on Friday, 28 September 2012 at Nobel Forum at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, is focusing its National Health Science Research symposium on "Health Professions Education" in December. Read more.

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