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• Well performing & productive,• and responsiveTransforming and Scaling up Health ProfessionalEducation and TrainingTransforming and scaling up the education and trainingof health professionals recommendations: what is it?A series of policy recommendations that addresses thequantity, quality and relevance of health professionalsand contributes to improving population healthoutcomes.Education and Training Institutions 1Faculty development programmes• Education and training institutions should considerdesigning and implementing faculty developmentprogrammes to update and strengthen teaching andclinical skills of faculty members relevant to theevolving health-care needs of communities.increase the socio-economic, ethnic and geographicaldiversity of students.CPD Faculty• Continuous development programmes for facultyand teaching staff, including current health workers,which update and develop teaching skillsStreamlined pathways• Streamlined educational pathways, or ladderprogrammes, for the advancement of practicinghealth professionals, should be used in bothundergraduate and postgraduate programmes.Higher education policies• Governments, funders and accrediting bodiesshould consider support- ing the implementationof higher education policies for mandatory facultydevelopment programmes that are aligned with thegoal of relevant health professional education .Innovative expansion• Education and training institutions should considerinnovative expansion of faculty, through therecruitment of community-based clinicians andhealth workers as educatorsEducation and Training Institutions 2Faculty development programmes• Education and training institutions should consideradapting curricula to population needs throughidentifying and defining the core competenciesthat are required to meet the evolving needs ofpopulations, health systems and health servicesdelivery and incorporating these into core curricula• Education and training institutions should usecontextually appropriate simulation methodsmore systematically in the education of healthprofessionals.• Education and training institutions should considerdirect entry of graduates from relevant undergraduate,postgraduate or other educational programmes intodifferent or other levels of professional studiesEducation and Training 3Targeted admissionsTargeted admissions policies should be adopted to24UNISWA News - October 2013