The Universidade Eduardo Mondlane/UCSD Medical Education Partnership

描述（申请人提供）：尽管新课程和新教育方法的发展对世界各地的医学教育产生了深远的影响，医学教育面临的最大挑战，撒哈拉非洲国家仍然感到关切的是，医学教育工作者人数太少，他们任教的机构得到的支持太少，他们无法充分利用其可观的技能和精力，医学教育因此，Universidade Eduardo Mondlane-UCSD医学教育伙伴关系的首要目标是大幅增加莫桑比克高技能医学院教师的数量。我们将强调一个强大的，但当地可持续的生物医学信息学基础设施的发展，以提高教学和学习。通过加强临床，业务和流行病学研究的基础设施，我们将为教师发展提供额外的途径，并大大提高机构的稳定性。这种合作的一个主要优先事项是招募学员和初级教师进入医学教育终身职业，并为他们提供技能，使这些职业可持续发展。为此，我们将制定早期和中期职业指导计划，这些计划针对莫桑比克教师和学员的目标以及UEM医学院的需求。尽管合作伙伴关系将由Eduardo Mondlane大学在莫桑比克建立，但随着计划的发展，我们将为莫桑比克在楠普拉和太特的两所新医学院提供积极援助，以建立一个由莫桑比克所有三所公立医学院组成的网络，从而将MEPI的影响扩大到整个莫桑比克。通过大力加强莫桑比克的医学教育基础设施，我们期望我们的伙伴关系将对莫桑比克在今后几十年向其所有公民提供更好的医疗保健的能力产生深远影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although the development of new curriculum and of new educational approaches has had a profound impact on medical education around the world, the biggest challenge to medical education in many sub-Saharan Africa countries continues to be that there are too few medical educators and that the institutions in which they teach are so poorly supported that they cannot fully apply their considerable skills and energy to medical education. Thus, the overriding goal of the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane-UCSD Medical Education Partnership is substantially increase the number of highly skilled medical school faculty in Mozambique. We will emphasize the development of a powerful but locally sustainable biomedical informatics infrastructure to enhance both teaching and learning. By strengthening the infrastructure for clinical, operational and epidemiological research we will both provide additional avenues for faculty development and greatly enhance institutional stability. A major priority of this collaboration is to recruit trainees and junior faculty into lifelong careers in medical education and to provide them with the skills to make these careers sustainable. To this end, we will develop early and mid-career mentoring programs that are tailored to the goals of individual Mozambican faculty and trainees as well as to the needs of the UEM Faculty of Medicine. Although the partnership will be anchored in Mozambique by the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, as the program develops we will provide active assistance to Mozambique's two new medical schools in Nampula and Tete to create a network of all three of Mozambique's publicly funded Faculties of Medicine in order to extend the impact of this MEPI to all of Mozambique. By substantially strengthening Mozambique's medical education infrastructure, we expect that our partnership will have a profound effect on Mozambique's ability to deliver better medical care to all of its citizens for the next several decades.