Shared Distributed Learning for Developing Medical Informatics Capacity in Africa

共享分布式学习以发展非洲的医学信息学能力

• 批准号: 8112617
• 负责人: MANOJ SEWAK MAHARAJ
• 金额: $ 24.24万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-06-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8112617
• 关键词: Africa; African; Development; Distance Education; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Fees; Funding; Grant; Health; Human Resources; Institution; Internships; Joints; Learning; Medical; Medical Informatics; Mentors; Mentorship; Modeling; Mozambique; Process; Research; Solutions; South Africa; Training; Training Programs; Uganda; Universities; Work; Workplace; Zimbabwe; base; experience; informatics training; innovation; programs; public health relevance

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.

描述（由申请人提供）： 该项目的目的是建立在以前的赠款中获得的经验，并通过PAN非洲合作计划在非洲发展医学信息学方面的研究能力和培训能力，该计划在莫桑比克，乌干达，南非和津巴布韦参与的机构将合作并一起工作。合作伙伴最终将为整个非洲的医学法律学方面的联合教学和研究做出贡献。这将通过分布式学习来促进。该项目将：1。继续在夸祖鲁 - 纳塔尔大学（University of Kwazulu-Natal）2。通过基于ICT的远程教育的协作过程为非洲其他大学提供现有的UKZ-N研究生医学信息学教育计划。 3.协助非洲的其他大学建立自己的医学信息学培训计划，作者：共享课程b。协助开发与本地需求相关的其他模块c。分享教学和指导的员工d。分布式学习使用各种解决方案e。开发员工的能力4。通过分布式学习为非洲其他大学的现有MPH计划提供医学信息学模块。制定卫生部的毕业生的医学信息学实习计划，并在工作环境中为毕业生提供持续的指导6。在工作环境中为毕业生提供了持续的指导。为非洲大学提供了一项与共享的五年级培训的非洲大学的联盟，以提供五年级的培训。 公共卫生相关性：许多人都认可了在包括阿美药物的LNFormatics Association在内的医学信息学培训。非洲信息医生的短缺需要创新的方法来教学和共享人力资源稀缺。该项目以在非洲建立医学信息学培训的经验教训为基础，并旨在为非洲的MI能力开发开发模型。