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5) Strategies to improve skills of health workforce
Approaches for upgrading the skills of physicians and nurses include:
Upgrading of the undergraduate curriculum to enhance knowledge and case
management skills in assessment, diagnosis, advice treatment and follow-up of the
most common causes of morbidity and mortality In Egypt.
Enhancing in-services training, and orientation of new graduates during their preservice
training; the MOHP introduced a two-week induction course for the new
takleef physicians.
Review of personnel licensing, certification and continued medical education
practices.
6) Undergraduate training
Undergraduate medical education
− Improvement of curricula should be a MOHP and MOHE collaborative effort.
Upgrading medical education should start with a review of the current curricula
and of available evaluations.
− The undergraduate medical curriculum will be substantially developed and
comprehensively set to give a much stronger community orientation, and greater
in-depth experience in providing clinical care and training in family health.
Nursing education has been developed as follows
− The current training for secondary nurses has been upgraded.
− Currecula upgrading of the three grades of the technical secondary nursing
schools has been achieved and also for some specialities in high technical
institutes and this will be accompilished for the other specialities
− Formulation of a high commetee , for revising and approval of the curricula .
− A questionaire for evaluating the teaching roganisations is being prepared now to
be submitted to the high commetee for approval before being applied to the
technical secondary nursing school (256 in number) , and the high technical
insititutes (12 in number)
− A plan for training the new teaching staff in technical secondary schools and
technicians in high technical insititutes on teaching methodes and technology
skills is being prepared .
− A new system for monitoring and evaluating the training programes being
prepared now .
− Programs in allied health professions (such as health economics and health
management) will be developed and introduced at diploma or masters level.
7) In-service training
A proposed new curriculum for in-service training should emphasize hands-on clinical
skills, interpersonal counseling skills, community orientation and family health and other
core skills that accompany the basic services provision. Charts and guidelines and
standard training course modules will be a prerequisite for implementation of the inservice
training. The training will require a resource of core trainers to conduct training
of trainers courses in each governorate.
It is recommended that the MOHP utilizes a clear job description for each post and
establishes the training needs for each post, thereby determining the required
curriculum for each training course. The style of training in the MOHP needs to move
from a didactic style to a more facilitative – problem based approach. This will require an
investment in Train the Trainer courses that have this practical based approach.
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