Training

Health Workforce Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Health Workers

Sarah Dwyer — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:29:31 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus and SHOPS

April 2015 (All day)

Webinar recording

On April 14, 2015, CapacityPlus and SHOPS presented a webinar on innovative investment options for health workforce education and training. Over 40 participants joined in the session, which offered presentations and question-and-answer sessions with participants engaging both the speakers and each other. Access a recording of the webinar and view presentation slides.

Gender Equality and Health Workforce Development Advocacy Tool

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:19:04 +0000

Author's name:

CapacityPlus

December 2014 (All day)

This forthcoming online tool focuses on aspects of gender discrimination in health workforce development specifically related to preservice education, such as issues affecting health professional students and faculty. If you would like us to contact you when we publish this tool, please let us know.

Increasing the Production of Competent and Qualified Frontline Health Workers in Nigeria

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:03:35 +0000

Author's name:

Heather Ross and Rebecca Bailey

January 2015 (All day)

Increasing the Production of Competent and Qualified Frontline Health Workers in Nigeria

This case study is part of the interactive ePlatform for the World Health Organization’s guidelines on transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training. Findings of a rapid bottlenecks assessment of midwifery, nursing, and health technology schools in Nigeria informed CapacityPlus’s work with federal- and state-level stakeholders to develop a plan to increase the production of certified graduates. This included providing educational resources, training tutors in up-to-date clinical guidelines and computer assisted pedagogy, and supporting students at risk of dropping out through scholarships. This comprehensive support has reduced student drop-out rates and increased pass rates on national certification examinations.

Estimating the Cost of Educating and Training Nurses and Midwives: Balancing Quantity and Quality

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:00:30 +0000

Author's name:

Sophie Faye, Rebecca Bailey, Sr. Azeb Admassu, and Yemesrach Adamu

January 2015 (All day)

Estimating the Cost of Educating and Training Nurses and Midwives

This case study is part of the interactive ePlatform for the World Health Organization’s guidelines on transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training. Knowledge about the cost of educating and training health workers is needed to support education program planning and management and to inform advocacy for increased investment. Ethiopia’s federal ministries of health and education collaborated with CapacityPlus and the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative to conduct a cost analysis of the nursing and midwifery programs at two colleges. The objectives were to estimate the cost of producing a graduate; identify fixed-asset constraints to scaling up the quantity and/or improving quality of graduates; and simulate the new cost per graduate for interventions to increase the quality of graduates.

Building the “Educational Home”: Staying Connected to Alumni with MEPI Graduate Tracking in Tanzania

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:57:21 +0000

Author's name:

Rachel Deussom, Michael Drane, Rebecca Bailey, Zohray Talib, Rose Mwangi, Joslin Dogbe, and Moses Simuyemba

January 2015 (All day)

Building the “Educational Home”

This case study is part of the interactive ePlatform for the World Health Organization’s guidelines on transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training. CapacityPlus is collaborating with the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Coordinating Center, MEPI Physician Tracking Technical Working Group, and MEPI-supported medical schools in 11 African countries to develop resources and good practices for graduate tracking and to foster exchange through a regional graduate tracking network. The MEPI Connect graduate tracking software is helping African medical schools to remain connected with their graduates. Tracking allows institutions to assess the effectiveness of strategies to retain graduates at posts in underserved areas.

Building the “Educational Home”: Staying Connected to Alumni with MEPI Graduate Tracking in Ethiopia

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:54:21 +0000

Author's name:

Rachel Deussom, Michael Drane, Rebecca Bailey, Zohray Talib, Rose Mwangi, Joslin Dogbe, and Moses Simuyemba

January 2015 (All day)

Building the “Educational Home”

This case study is part of the interactive ePlatform for the World Health Organization’s guidelines on transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training. CapacityPlus is collaborating with the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Coordinating Center, MEPI Physician Tracking Technical Working Group, and MEPI-supported medical schools in 11 African countries to develop resources and good practices for graduate tracking and to foster exchange through a regional graduate tracking network. The MEPI Connect graduate tracking software is helping African medical schools to remain connected with their graduates. Tracking allows institutions to assess the effectiveness of strategies to retain graduates at posts in underserved areas.

Building the “Educational Home”: Staying Connected to Alumni with MEPI Graduate Tracking in Ghana

Sarah Dwyer — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:49:38 +0000

Author's name:

Rachel Deussom, Michael Drane, Rebecca Bailey, Zohray Talib, Rose Mwangi, Joslin Dogbe, and Moses Simuyemba

November 2014 (All day)

Building the “Educational Home”

This case study is part of the interactive ePlatform for the World Health Organization’s guidelines on transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training. CapacityPlus is collaborating with the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Coordinating Center, MEPI Physician Tracking Technical Working Group, and MEPI-supported medical schools in 11 African countries to develop resources and good practices for graduate tracking and to foster exchange through a regional graduate tracking network. The MEPI Connect graduate tracking software is helping African medical schools to remain connected with their graduates. Tracking allows institutions to assess the effectiveness of strategies to retain graduates at posts in underserved areas.

Scaling Up Health Workforce Education and Training: Guide for Applying the Bottlenecks and Best Buys Approach

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:42:25 +0000

Author's name:

Rebecca J. Bailey and Kate Tulenko

January 2015 (All day)

Scaling Up Health Workforce Education and Training: Guide for Applying the Bottlenecks and Best Buys Approach

CapacityPlus’s Bottlenecks and Best Buys Approach is designed to help educational institutions identify obstacles to increasing the production of competent and qualified health workers that can be overcome through limited yet strategic investments. This guide identifies the stakeholders who should be involved, the steps in conducting a bottlenecks assessment, and a method for using the results to identify and build consensus on the most effective and affordable actions (best buys) for overcoming bottlenecks. It also provides tools and examples for strategic steps in the approach, such as engaging stakeholders, conducting a situation analysis, defining the school’s scale-up goal, leading group interviews, analyzing the results, and presenting the final bottlenecks and best buys report to external stakeholders and potential investors. Access the guide and annexes, along with related resources.

CHEER: An Approach to Community-Based Education Evaluation

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:54:20 +0000

Author's name:

Ian Couper

August 2014 (All day)

CHEER: An Approach to CBE Evaluation

This presentation was given at the Community-Based Education Technical Working Group Session during the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Annual Symposium in Maputo, Mozambique.

Sustaining the eLearning Enterprise

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:50:51 +0000

Author's name:

David Potenziani

August 2014 (All day)

Sustaining the eLearning Enterprise

This presentation was given on August 7, 2014, at the eLearning Technical Working Group Session during the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Annual Symposium in Maputo, Mozambique.

MEPI Connect – “Uganisha”: Graduate Tracking Software developed by the MEPI Technical Working Group for Graduate Tracking

Sarah Dwyer — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:24:39 +0000

Author's name:

Michael Drane

August 2014 (All day)

MEPI Connect – “Uganisha”

This presentation was given on August 7, 2014, at the Physician Tracking Technical Working Group Session during the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Annual Symposium in Maputo, Mozambique.

The Dean’s Dashboard: Strengthening School Management through Information and Informed Decision-Making

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:32:15 +0000

Author's name:

David Potenziani, Jehu Iputo, Rebecca Bailey, Carl Leitner, Heather Ross, and Jørn Braa

November 2014 (All day)

The Dean’s Dashboard

Health workforce educational institutions are struggling to meet the increasing demand for health workers capable of providing quality health services to expanding populations. More effective and efficient management of education and training institutions can play a major role in a country’s ability to scale up its production of competent and qualified health workers. Presented at the GETHealth Summit in Dublin, Ireland (November 13–14, 2014), this poster describes findings from a pilot of the Dean’s Dashboard at three schools in Africa. When aligned with a school’s strategic planning efforts, the Dean’s Dashboard offers the potential for regular reports on progress toward strategic goals as well as management information in a form that is easily accessible to institutional leaders. As an open source application, it is an affordable tool for information management and presentation.

The Medical Education Partnership Initiative: Report of the Graduate Tracking Software Review and Implementation Workshop

Sarah Dwyer — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:31:18 +0000

Author's name:

Rachel Deussom, Michael Drane, Rebecca Bailey, and Sinit Mehtsun

September 2014 (All day)

MEPI: Report of the Graduate Tracking Software Review and Implementation Workshop

In collaboration with the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Physician Tracking Technical Working Group, CapacityPlus and the MEPI Coordinating Center conducted a Graduate Tracking Software Review and Implementation Workshop in Moshi, Tanzania, July 8–11, 2014. Participants reviewed the beta version of the graduate tracking software and provided additional feedback to finalize its functional requirements, data elements, forms, reports, and other features. Each MEPI-supported school representative developed a draft 100-day strategic action plan for his/her institution with three common outcome objectives: 1) build/achieve consensus from key stakeholders on how to apply the software; 2) define needs for adapting, deploying, and maintaining the software; and 3) deploy the software.

Cost of Preservice Education for Health Workers: Balancing Quantity and Quality

Sarah Dwyer — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:28:48 +0000

Author's name:

Sophie Faye, Rebecca Bailey, Sr. Azeb Admassu, Yemesrach Adamu, Elias Asfaw, Stephen Musau, and Ben Johns

October 2014 (All day)

Cost of Preservice Education for Health Workers

CapacityPlus, Ethiopia’s federal ministries of health and education, and the Nursing Education Partnership Initiative conducted a retrospective cost assessment of the undergraduate nursing and midwifery programs at University of Gondar College of Medicine and Health Sciences and Arbaminch College of Health Sciences. Presented at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 3, 2014, this poster summarizes the study, which used primary source data to estimate the cost of producing nursing and midwifery graduates, identified constraints in infrastructure and materials affecting the quality of education, and showed the financial impact on the cost per graduate of overcoming some of those constraints.

Health Professional School Leadership and Health Sector Reform, Performance, and Practice

Sarah Dwyer — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:27:10 +0000

Author's name:

Kate Tulenko, Richard Seifman, and Ok Pannenborg

September 2014 (All day)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #14 (PDF)

CapacityPlus Technical Brief #14 (Interactive Version)

In the transition to the post-Millennium Development Goals era, many low and middle-income countries will be making significant shifts in their national health policies. The leadership that is drawn upon to make policy changes tends to be in ministries of health, flagship hospitals, physicians and nurses associations, and social protection entities. Health professional schools are an additional and valuable—yet often overlooked—source of leadership in health reform and health policy-making. This technical brief highlights some examples of how the education and research leadership of health professional schools has engaged, influenced, or obtained resources from national policy-makers and others with significant influence on the health sector. The brief also reviews instances in which different health educational institutions and professional associations have worked to shape national responses to health system needs.