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Removing the Blindfold: Mapping Health Worker Schools to Improve Education

January 2011 by Shaun Noronha
TAGS: Education and Training, Knowledge-Sharing, Preservice Education, Second Global Forum on HRH

Shaun NoronhaThe transformative scale-up of health worker education can be like the game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. We know so little about health worker education that it often feels like we’re playing blindfolded.

Recognizing that we can’t really transform health worker education until we know where health schools are located, the World Health Organization organized a panel at the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Bangkok to discuss global mapping of health worker educational institutions.

I was invited to speak about the mapping of nursing schools. Read more »

Conventional and Thai Traditional Medicine: Visiting Uthong Hospital

January 2011 by David Nelson
TAGS: Health Workers, HR Management, Preservice Education, Second Global Forum on HRH

At Uthong Hospital—a 150-bed community facility in Amphur-Uthong, Supanburi Province, Thailand—I had the opportunity to learn how the staff integrate both conventional medicine and Thai traditional therapies. Located about two hours away from Bangkok, the field trip was part of the busy week-long events at the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health. Read more »

Exploring the Siriraj Hospital at the Second Global Forum on HRH

January 2011 by Shaun Noronha
TAGS: Health Workers, Preservice Education, Second Global Forum on HRH

Shaun NoronhaDespite the 6:30 a.m. reporting time, the field trip to Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok—part of the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health—turned out to be one of the best events of the week.

Siriraj Hospital, part of Mahidol University, is the oldest and largest hospital in Thailand. We were told that the attached medical school produces about a quarter of all Thai medical graduates.

Besides its numerical strength, the school also pays great attention to a number of issues relevant to the transformative scale-up of health worker education. Read more »

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