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An interventional model to develop health professionals in West Africa
- Source :
- The Pan African Medical Journal, Vol 18, Iss 152 (2014), The Pan African Medical Journal
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- African Field Epidemiology Network, 2014.
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Abstract
- The health sector is characterized by a human resource base lacking in numbers, specialized skills, and management skills. West African Health Organization (WAHO) recognizes the need within the West Africa sub-region for bilingual professionals who are skilled in public health, management, leadership, and information technology to build human capacity in public health and developed the Young Professionals Internship Program (YPIP). Our study explores the evolution of the programme. YPIP program has successfully carried out its original aims and objectives to equip young professionals with basic principles of public health, management, and leadership, acquire competence in a second official language (French, English, and Portuguese), information and communication technology. Contributing factors towards this successful evaluation included positive ratings and commentary from previous interns about the relevance, usefulness, and quality of the programme, encouraging feedback from WAHO management, trainers, administrators, and intern employers on the impact of the YPIP program on young professionals, supporting evidence that demonstrates increased knowledge in professional skills and language competency.
- Subjects :
- Program evaluation
medicine.medical_specialty
Health Personnel
Internship, Nonmedical
Multilingualism
human resource
Skills management
interventional model
Professional Competence
Nursing
Internship
Burkina Faso
Global health
medicine
Humans
Health Workforce
Staff Development
Competence (human resources)
Information Science
health professional
Medical education
lcsh:R5-920
Project Evaluation
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
west african health organization
business.industry
Public health
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Professional development
Administrative Personnel
lcsh:RA1-1270
General Medicine
Africa, Western
Leadership
Young professional
Health Resources
Public Health
Computer Literacy
business
lcsh:Medicine (General)
Program Evaluation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19378688
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 152
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Pan African Medical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....41c5ed2d8ea6bd08a24e4e2d007a43f5