Education and Training

Private-Sector Participation in Preservice Health Education

November 2013 by Heather Ross, Richard Seifman, and Rebecca Bailey
Private-Sector Participation in Preservice Health Education

Private health professional schools are expanding rapidly. With health training needs increasing and developing country budgets not keeping pace, private-sector schools will soon produce more health workers than public-sector institutions. This free eLearning course explores critical success factors in private-sector health education and training that are also relevant to public institutions.

TAGS: Education and Training, eLearning, Health Workers, Preservice Education

Innovative Financing for Preservice Education of Health Professionals

November 2013 by Heather Ross, Richard Seifman, and Rebecca Bailey
Innovative Financing for Preservice Education of Health Professionals

In an environment of limited resources, educational institutions must be creative in finding financial resources. This free eLearning course provides an overview of creative financing mechanisms designed to help a health professional education institution reach its funding goals. Participants will learn how to select, prioritize, and implement new financing mechanisms.

TAGS: Education and Training, eLearning, Health Workers, Innovative Financing, Preservice Education

Achieving HRH Commitments: Lessons Learned and Resources from CapacityPlus

November 2013 by CapacityPlus
application/pdf iconAchieving HRH Commitments: Lessons Learned and Resources from CapacityPlus

This presentation was given at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Recife, Brazil, during the CapacityPlus side session on November 9, 2013. Project leaders shared innovative resources and lessons learned from their application at the country level in the areas of health workforce planning, production, management, performance, and retention.

TAGS: Education and Training, Evaluation and Knowledge-Sharing, Faith-Based Organizations, Gender, Global Leadership, Policy and Planning, Workforce Effectiveness

Health Informatics Education and Training Programs: Important Factors to Consider

May 2013 by Kate Tulenko, Dykki Settle, and Rebecca Bailey
CapacityPlus Technical Brief #10 (PDF)
CapacityPlus Technical Brief #10 (Interactive Version)

Health informatics is of growing importance in efforts to improve health outcomes across the globe, involving many components of health systems. It is primarily concerned with the process of making health-related data accessible and useful for evidence-based decision-making. To take advantage of the potential advantages offered by health informatics, health workers must be able to access relevant data and be comfortable with its application. Therefore, preservice education and in-service training in information technology should be part of the national investment in health systems. This technical brief introduces the concept of health informatics and describes the considerations to be kept in mind when designing education and training programs for health informatics.

TAGS: Education and Training, Health Informatics, Health Systems Strengthening, Health Workers

Nigeria’s Primary Health Care Training Institutions: Challenges and Progress

April 2013 by Heather Ross, Rebecca Bailey, Paul Marsden, and Samuel Ngobua
application/pdf iconNigeria’s Primary Health Care Training Institutions: Challenges and Progress

Nigeria is one of 57 countries defined by the World Health Organization as having a critical shortage of health workers. CapacityPlus undertook an assessment of Nigerian midwifery, health technology, and nursing schools to better understand the progress and challenges in producing greater numbers of competent and qualified health providers. Nineteen schools were assessed through focus group interviews and on-site evaluations. Presented at the 9th Annual Physician Workforce Research Conference in Alexandria, VA on May 2-3, 2013, this poster depicts the challenges that health care training institutions face in Nigeria, along with recommendations to overcome these challenges.

TAGS: Education and Training, Health Workers, Nigeria

Transforming Health Worker Education: Implementing Options to Eliminate Gender Discrimination

March 2013 by Crystal Ng, Constance Newman, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis
application/pdf iconTransforming Health Worker Education Poster

CapacityPlus compiled and analyzed literature on gender discrimination in higher education, including health worker preservice education. Additional information was gathered by contacting institution staff and reviewing institutional websites. Presented at the 4th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference in Washington, DC on March 14–16, 2013, this poster summarizes the review and recommends several key actions that stakeholders can take at institutional and governmental levels to counter gender discrimination.

TAGS: Education and Training, Gender, Health Workers

La formation du personnel de santé

June 2012 by CapacityPlus
application/pdf iconIssue Brief #6 (French)

Comment les pays peuvent-ils étendre l’éducation des prestataires de soins afin de répondre aux besoins sanitaires ?

TAGS: Education and Training, HR Management, Policy and Planning

Les agents de santé communautaires

May 2012 by CapacityPlus
application/pdf iconIssue Brief #5 (French)

Comment les pays peuvent-ils rapidement accroître leurs effectifs sanitaires ?

TAGS: Community Health Workers, Education and Training, HR Management, Policy and Planning

Transforming the Health Worker Pipeline: Interventions to Eliminate Gender Discrimination in Preservice Education

December 2012 by Crystal Ng, Constance Newman, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis, with contributing authors Mesrak Belatchew, Diana Frymus, and Asha George
Transforming the Health Worker Pipeline

Governments and preservice education institutions must take action against gender barriers if they are to produce robust workforces able to respond to the health needs of the populations they serve. This report describes the results of a systematic and expert review undertaken to identify practices that have the potential to counter forms of gender discrimination against students and faculty in preservice education institutions. Also see the related technical brief.

TAGS: Education and Training, Gender, Health Workers, Preservice Education

Strengthening the Health Worker Pipeline through Gender-Transformative Strategies

December 2012 by Constance Newman, Crystal Ng, and Sara Pacqué-Margolis
CapacityPlus Technical Brief #7 (PDF)
CapacityPlus Technical Brief #7 (Interactive Version)

CapacityPlus conducted a systematic review of 300 articles, reports, program documents, and websites on gender discrimination in higher education, including health worker preservice education. A panel of experts in gender and in human resources for health then reviewed summaries of 51 interventions identified from the literature search, according to selected characteristics of gender-transformative interventions. This technical brief provides an overview of how gender discrimination affects health professional students and faculty as well as intervention options that the expert panel identified as having potential to counter gender discrimination. In addition, it offers recommendations for preservice education institutions and other stakeholders to address these challenges. Also see the related report.

TAGS: Education and Training, Gender, Health Workers, Preservice Education
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