Shared Distributed Learning for Developing Medical Informatics Capacity in Africa

描述（由申请人提供）： 该项目的目的是在以往赠款所取得的经验的基础上，通过一项泛非合作倡议，在非洲发展医学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在该倡议中进行合作和共同努力。合作伙伴最终将为非洲医学信息学的联合教学和研究做出贡献。这将通过分布式学习来实现。该项目将：1。继续在夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学开设医学信息学研究生课程。通过利用基于信息和通信技术的远程教育的合作进程，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方案：a.课程共享B.协助开发与当地需求相关的其他模块。分享教学和辅导人员。使用各种解决方案的分布式学习。发展工作人员能力4.通过分布式学习，为非洲其他大学现有的MPH课程提供医学信息学模块5。为卫生部的毕业生制定医疗信息学实习方案，并在工作环境中为毕业生提供持续的指导。发展一个非洲大学联盟，提供类似标准的医疗信息学课程，并分享教学。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：医学信息学培训的必要性得到了许多人的认可，包括美国医学信息学协会。非洲缺乏信息专家，这就需要采取创新的方法来进行教学和分享稀缺的人力资源。该项目借鉴了在非洲建立医疗信息学培训的经验教训，旨在为非洲的医疗信息能力发展建立一个模式。

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.