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Developing an interprofessional transition course to improve team-based HIV care for Sub-Saharan Africa
- Source :
- BMC Medical Education, BMC Medical Education, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Research Square Platform LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background With funding from the United States Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA), a consortium of health professional training institutions from Africa developed HIV-specific, interprofessional, team-based educational resources to better support trainees during the transition period between pre-service training and professional practice. Methods Ten faculty members representing nine medical and nursing schools in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) developed a training package of modules focused on core clinical, public health, interprofessional education (IPE), and quality improvement (QI) domains related to HIV service delivery. Curriculum development was informed by a rapid needs assessment of existing tools and future needs for HIV education across 27 SSA health professions training institutions. A total of 17 modules were developed, targeted at newly qualified health care professionals to be taught in a series of two-day workshops meant to complement existing institution specific HIV-curricula. Results Between April and July 2019, a comprehensive case-based HIV training package was developed to support trainees in transition from pre-service training to independent professional practice. Each module, addressing different elements of interprofessional practice, was intended to be delivered in an interprofessional format. Thus far, 70 health professions training institutions in 14 countries have implemented the program; 547 educators facilitated STRIPE workshops, with a total of 5027 learners trained between September 2019 and September 2020. Conclusions To our knowledge this is the first IPE HIV-specific curriculum explicitly focused on enhancing the quality of training provided to graduating health care professionals working in SSA. The collaborative, cross-institutional, interprofessional approach to curriculum development provides a benchmark for how best-practice approaches to education can be disseminated in SSA.
- Subjects :
- Interprofessional
medicine.medical_specialty
Quality management
020205 medical informatics
Service delivery framework
Health Personnel
Interprofessional Relations
education
lcsh:Medicine
02 engineering and technology
Education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Health care
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
Curriculum development
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Quality improvement
Sub Saharan Africa
Curriculum
health care economics and organizations
Africa South of the Sahara
lcsh:LC8-6691
Medical education
lcsh:Special aspects of education
business.industry
Public health
lcsh:R
HIV
General Medicine
Interprofessional education
Faculty
Health Occupations
Needs assessment
business
Psychology
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Medical Education, BMC Medical Education, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2020)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fc3099a566ea4279cfd7ba1eb30b58c3