The Pacific Medical Supply Workers Buddy Network: a regional professionalization activity

Background Field experience, literature review and focus group findings indicated that a Buddy Network could help to overcome the unique barriers encountered by senior medical supply workers in Pacific Island Countries, including chief pharmacists, central medical store managers and country program managers. Specifically it could: encourage shared problem solving, reduce professional isolation, provide a proxy of supervision and encourage self-direction, improve workplace confidence minimise training fatigue, and maximise application of training.