Building capacity in medical education research in Australia

Building capacity in medical education research in Australia.

Medical education research is a relatively new but growing discipline. There is an overall perception of lack of confidence in the quality of the research, which is not entirely justified. The scientific quality of any research is defined by the appropriate application of method to a particular problem. There is a need for programmatic research focused on developing medical education policy. Un...

Medical missions, surgical education, and capacity building.

Campbell and colleagues provide additional evidence hat a highly structured short-term experience in a resourceimited environment enhances training of North Amerian surgical residents. In this case, residents worked ith Operation Smile, which has provided high-volume umanitarian surgical care in many low-income counries for 25 years. Trainees from high-income countries ave also reflected that s...

Building capacity for medical education research in family medicine: the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME)

BACKGROUND Despite the apparent benefits to teaching, many faculty members are reluctant to participate in medical education research (MER) for a variety of reasons. In addition to the further demand on their time, physicians often lack the confidence to initiate MER projects and require more support in the form of funding, structure and guidance. These obstacles have contributed to a decline i...

Postgraduate medical education in Australia.

Medical Education Capacity-Building Partnerships for Health Care Systems Development.

Health care workforce development is a key pillar of global health systems strengthening that requires investment in health care worker training institutions. This can be achieved by developing partnerships between training institutions in resource-limited and resource-rich areas and leveraging the unique expertise and opportunities both have to offer. To realize their full potential, however, ...