In case you missed yesterday’s Webcast Audio Seminar (WAS) Session, here are the highlights of this session:
Challenges and Opportunities for Medical Schools in Africa
Presenter: Quentin Eichbaum, MD, PhD, MPH, MFA
September 28, 12 PM EST
- Africa is large and complex that includes wide spectrum of geographies, economies and cultural difference, including over 1000 different languages and dialects.
- No One Size Fits All
- Global health is central in Africa and what they have constructed.
- Competency-based education model or backwards design.
- Three key concepts: Context Global- local; Interdependence in Education; Transformative learning.
- Medical Education Partnership Imitative (MEPI) is no longer replaced with AFREhealth in conjugation with Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH).
Challenges facing New Medical Schools in Africa
- Standards/accreditation
- Admissions
- Assessment and evaluation
- Curriculum
The Problems
- Insufficiently inclusive of input from LMICs.
- Insufficiently context specific
- Unresolved “individualist/collectivists disjunction
- Inadequate assessment methods
Conclusions
- Africa – a large place with complex cultures, policy legacies (colonialist & other)
- Medical education in Africa spans a wide range of resources and modalities in pedagogy, standards/accreditation, curricula, admissions, assessment and evaluation
- Key concepts in global education – contexts, interdependence – Consortia, alliances, networks–MEPI, Consortium of New Southern African Medical Schools (CONSAMS), AFREhealth, CUGH – Role of “global health” in driving change global education, research – Risks of exporting ‘Western’ education into local African contexts
- Problem with competencies in African ‘collectivist’ settings
- Ethics of research; capacitation; science vs humanities
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