The importance of research in the MEPI program: perspectives from the National Institutes of Health.
The importance of research in the MEPI program: perspectives from the National Institutes of Health.
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10.1097/acm.0000000000000351
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2014-08
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Said M
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Glass RI;Razak MH;Said M
旨在加强和改变非洲医学和卫生科学教育的医学教育伙伴关系倡议（MEPI）特别强调将研究纳入新课程。全球在防治艾滋病毒/艾滋病方面取得的巨大进展，在一定程度上要归功于在非洲机构、在非洲实地工作的非洲调查人员所进行的重大研究。这一经验表明，学术机构在培养下一代卫生专业人员的同时，在创造知识方面发挥了关键作用。研究是卫生科学创新的关键驱动力，可以刺激全球合作，建立大量财政支持，增强科学领导能力，促进经济发展。通过MEPI，年轻的研究人员在其职业生涯的早期就开始参与研究培训，参与开发研究技能的项目，以帮助他们更好地了解如何评估新证据并将其纳入政策和实践，在其国家内推进卫生科学，并加强他们工作的学术机构。研究培训是MEPI的重要组成部分，在项目结束后应该持续很长时间。MEPI的研究组成部分可能有助于建立一个临界质量的研究人员以及卫生专业人员、教师和领导骨干，他们将更好地适应不断变化的卫生科学进步全景。
The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI), which aims to strengthen and transform education in medicine and the health sciences in Africa, has placed special emphasis on including research in the new curriculum. The great progress achieved against HIV/AIDS globally is due in part on major research conducted by African investigators working in African institutions at African field sites. This experience demonstrates the key role of academic institutions in generating knowledge while training the next generation of health professionals. Research is a key driver of innovation in the health sciences and can spur global collaborations, build substantial financial support, empower scientific leadership, and promote economic development. Through MEPI, young investigators are becoming engaged in research training early in their careers with projects that develop research skills to help them better understand how to evaluate and integrate new evidence into policy and practice, advance the science of health within their countries, and strengthen the academic institutions in which they work. Research training is an essential component of MEPI and should endure long after the program ends. The MEPI research component might help to build a critical mass of researchers as well as a cadre of health professionals, teachers, and leaders who will be better equipped to embrace the continually changing panorama of advances in the health sciences.