scholarly journals Mbarara University Research Training Initiative: a spin-off of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative in Uganda

2017 ◽  
Vol Volume 8 ◽  
pp. 527-533
Author(s):  
Edith Wakida ◽  
Samuel Maling ◽  
Celestino Obua
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Research Training ◽  
University Research ◽  
Training Initiative ◽  
Medical Education Partnership Initiative

scholarly journals Mbarara University Research Training Initiative: Experiences and Accomplishments of the MEPI Junior D43 TW010128 Award in Uganda

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 12 ◽  
pp. 1397-1410
Author(s):  
Edith K Wakida ◽  
Clara D Atuhaire ◽  
Christine K Karungi ◽  
Samuel Maling ◽  
Celestino Obua
Keyword(s):  
Research Training ◽  
University Research ◽  
Training Initiative

scholarly journals Medical Education Partnership Initiative gives birth to AFREhealth

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. e965-e966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Omaswa ◽  
Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde ◽  
Peter Donkor ◽  
James Hakim ◽  
Milliard Derbew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Education Partnership Initiative

Medical School Enrollments and Admissions Policies

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. Rothstein
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Federal Aid ◽  
World War ◽  
Research Grants ◽  
School Research ◽  
Research Facilities

After shortages of physicians developed in the 1950s and 1960s, federal and state governments undertook programs to increase the number of medical students. Government funding led to the creation of many new medical schools and to substantial enrollment increases in existing schools. Medical schools admitted larger numbers of women, minority, and low-income students. The impact of medical schools on the career choices of students has been limited. Federal funding for medical research immediately after World War II was designed to avoid politically controversial issues like federal aid for medical education and health care. The 1947 Steelman report on medical research noted that it did not examine “equally important” problems, such as financial assistance for medical education, equal access to health care, continuing medical education for physicians, or “the mass application of science to the prevention of many communicable diseases.” The same restraints prevailed with regard to early federal aid for the construction of medical school research facilities. Some medical school research facilities were built with the help of federal funds during and after World War II, but the first federal legislation specifically designed to fund construction of medical school research facilities was the Health Research Facilities Act of 1956. It provided matching grants equal to 50 percent of the cost of research facilities and equipment, and benefited practically all medical schools. In 1960, medical schools received $13.8 million to construct research facilities. This may be compared to $106.4 million for research grants and $41.5 million for research training grants in the same year. Federal grants for research and research training were often used for other activities. As early as 1951, the Surgeon General's Committee on Medical School Grants and Finances reported that “Public Health Service grants have undoubtedly improved some aspects of undergraduate instruction in every medical school,” with most of the improvements resulting from training rather than research grants. By the early 1970s, according to Freymann, of $1.3 billion given to medical schools for research, “about $800 million was 'redeployed' into institutional and departmental support. . . . The distinction between research and education became as fluid as the imagination of the individual grantees wished it to be.”

The Medical Education Partnership Initiative: PEPFAR’s Effort To Boost Health Worker Education To Strengthen Health Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 1561-1572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fitzhugh Mullan ◽  
Seble Frehywot ◽  
Francis Omaswa ◽  
Nelson Sewankambo ◽  
Zohray Talib ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Worker Education ◽  
Medical Education Partnership Initiative

scholarly journals The Quality Whirlwind in the Higher Medical Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (6Bis) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nino Chikhladze
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Higher Medical Education

Globalize World demands to realize Higher Education for making most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. Higher Education is an important factor in further enhancing research in underpinning Higher Education for the economic and cultural development of our societies and for social cohesion. The effort to introduce structural change and improve the quality of teaching should not detract from the effort to strengthen research and innovation. Ministers meeting in Berlin in September 2003 added an Action Line to the Bologna process entitled "European Higher Education Area and European Research Area "“ two pillars of the knowledge based society" that underlines the key role of research training in this context. Bergen Communique (2005) has chosen 3 priorities including quality assurance (internal/external quality assurance) and appealed to,, Strengthen research, innovation, emphasize the importance of research and research-training''. In London Communique (2007) is marked that,, Higher Education Institutions should continue to develop their internal system of quality assurance''. The task of Higher Medical Education everywhere is the provision of Health Care. Notwithstanding variations, there is a high degree of equivalence of structure, process, and product of medical school worldwide. Research is an integral part of Higher Medical Education: increasing the role and relevance of research to technological, social and cultural evolution and to the needs of Society.

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