Medical Education for Services to All Ugandans (MESAU)

描述（由申请人提供）：在非洲，艾滋病毒、传染病和其他严重的健康问题，加上卫生人力的严重短缺，影响了有效的卫生保健提供。为了在非洲培训必要数量的医生，医学院需要培养更多高质量的医生。该提案与JHU组建了一个5所乌干达医学院联盟，以促进医学教育、研究和环境方面的能力建设和绩效提高，以改善服务的提供。资助这一提议将有助于乌干达大学加强全国范围内的南南机构合作，作为提高医学教育质量的一项战略，增加在该国特别是在农村地区培训和保留的卫生工作者人数。这笔资金将加强乌干达医学院联盟实现其共同使命的能力，“确保建立在强大的可持续系统基础上的变革性创新医学教育，培养更多始终如一的高质量卫生工作者，通过服务和研究解决艾滋病毒/艾滋病等卫生优先事项，以改善乌干达的健康结果。”该提案的具体目标是，通过制定以学习者为中心的课程，在覆盖全国的标准化社区教育、服务和研究平台上实施，提高医学教育和服务培训的质量和相关性。训练有素的现场主管将教授在资源有限的环境中提供当地相关服务所需的能力。接下来，将向教师和学生提供奖励和支持，鼓励他们在以社区为基础的地点进行跨学科研究。该校将提供一系列资助，让学生有机会在社区开展业务研究，增加基础科学和家庭医学高级学位的培养渠道，并通过与JHU教员“结对”的研究资助，鼓励教员发展和保留。最后，将强调支助系统能力建设，以促进有效地进行教育和研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In Africa, HIV, infectious diseases and other severe health problems compounded by critical shortages of health workforce compromise effective health care delivery. In order to train the necessary number of medical doctors in Africa, medical schools need to produce more high quality doctors. This proposal assembles a 5 Ugandan medical school consortium with JHU to catalyze capacity building and performance enhancements in medical education, research, and environment geared towards improved service delivery. Funding this proposal will facilitate Ugandan universities to strengthen countrywide south-south institutional collaboration as a strategy to enhance quality in medical education with an increase in the number of health workers trained and retained in the country, especially in rural areas. This funding will strengthen the capacity of the Ugandan medical schools consortium to realize their joint mission "to ensure the transformative innovative medical education built on strong sustainable systems to produce more health workers of consistently high quality to address health priorities like HIV/AIDS through service and research to improve health outcomes for Uganda." The specific aims of the proposal are to improve the quality and relevance of medical education and service training by developing learner-centered curricula to be implemented at standardized community-based platforms for education, service, and research which geographically cover the entire country. Well-trained on-site supervisors will teach competencies necessary to deliver locally relevant services in resource-limited environments. Next, incentives and support will be provided to faculty and students to undertake transdisciplinary research at the community-based sites. A series of grants will be offered that will give students the opportunity to initiate operational research at community sites, will increase the pipeline of basic science and family medicine advanced degrees, and encourage faculty development and retention through research grants with "twinning" opportunities with JHU faculty. Finally, support systems capacity building will be emphasized to facilitate the efficient conduct of education and research. PUBLIC HEATLH RELEVANCE: Improving medical education in resource-limited settings through Innovative curricula will result in a larger number of high quality health care workers with the competencies to address Ugandan health care priorities such as HIV/AIDS and non-communicable disease such as cardiovascular disease and cancer