Shared Distributed Learning for Developing Medical Informatics Capacity in Africa

描述（由申请人提供）： 该项目旨在借鉴以往赠款获得的经验，并通过泛非合作倡议发展非洲医疗信息学的研究能力和培训能力，莫桑比克、乌干达、南非和津巴布韦的参与机构将进行合作和共同努力。合作伙伴最终将为整个非洲医学信息学的联合教学和研究做出贡献。分布式学习将促进这一点。该项目将： 1. 继续在夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学提供医学信息学研究生课程 2. 通过使用基于信息通信技术的远程教育的协作过程，向非洲其他大学提供现有的 UKZ-N 研究生医学信息学教育课程。 3. 通过以下方式协助非洲其他大学建立自己的医学信息学培训项目：共享课程 B.协助开发与当地要求相关的附加模块 c．共享教学和指导人员 d．使用各种解决方案的分布式学习 e．培养员工能力 4. 通过分布式学习，向非洲其他大学现有的公共卫生硕士课程提供医学信息学模块 5. 为卫生部的毕业生制定医学信息学实习计划，并在工作环境中为毕业生提供持续指导 6. 建立一个非洲大学联盟，提供类似标准的医学信息学课程并进行共享教学 7. 在五年内为 100 名学员提供 18 个月的学费资助。 公共卫生相关性：包括美国医学信息学协会在内的许多人都承认医学信息学培训的必要性。非洲信息学家的短缺需要创新的教学方法和共享稀缺的人力资源。该项目借鉴了非洲建立医疗信息学培训的经验教训，旨在开发非洲 MI 能力发展的模型。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project aims to build on the experience gained in previous grants and to develop research capacity and training capacity in medical informatics in Africa through a Pan African collaborative initiative in which participating institutions in Mozambique, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe will co-operate and work together. The partners will ultimately contribute to joint teaching and research in Medical lnformatics across Africa. This will be facilitated by distributed learning. The project will: 1. Continue to offer the postgraduate programmes in medical informatics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal 2. Offer the existing UKZ-N postgraduate medical informatics education programmes to other Universities in Africa through a collaborative process using ICT based distance education. 3. Assist other Universities in Africa to establish their own medical informatics training programmes by: a. Sharing curricula b. Assisting in developing additional modules relevant to local requirements c. Sharing staff for teaching and mentoring d. Distributed learning using various solutions e. Developing staff capacity 4. Offer medical informatics modules to existing MPH programmes at other Universities in Africa through distributed learning 5. Develop a medical informatics internship programme for graduates in a Ministry of Health and provide ongoing mentorship of the graduates in the work environment 6. Develop a consortium of African Universities offering medical informatics programmes of similar standard with shared teaching 7. Provide tuition fee funding for eighteen months to 100 trainees over five years. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The need for training in medical informatics is acknowledged by many, including the Amercian Medicial lnformatics Association. The shortage of informaticians in Africa requires innovative approaches to teaching and sharing of scarce human resources. This project builds on the lessons learnt in establishing medical informatics training in Africa and aims to develop a model for MI capacity development in Africa.