A Global Vision of Reform
An independent commission of 20 academic leaders from around the world recommends comprehensive reform in the training of healthcare professionals, in a major new report published in The Lancet on 4 December 2010. The report calls for competency-based curricula, creative use of information technology, transformative learning, and inter-professional teamwork, as well as a systems approach to institutional reforms. The report was launched at a Harvard symposium on November 29-December 1, 2010, organized by the Harvard School of Public Health, China Medical Board and The Lancet. Report findings are also being disseminated at conferences and meetings around the world.
This website will provide news on progress, global networking opportunities, and other ways to connect for all who share this global vision of reform. The aim is to generate successful health education reform models, adaptable by individual nations, and ultimately, equitable high-quality health services for all.
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April Update from Co-Chairs
The Lancet Commission report continues to command attention and interest among diverse groups and nations. This month we’d like to focus on what’s happening in the Sub-Saharan African region.
Our two partners—the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP) and the U.S. Institute of Medicine Global Health Forum—both have initiatives that will involve several nations in this region. The IAMP, under the direction of Dr. Bernie Jones, has disseminated the report to 68 countries, and Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa were among the 7 countries they’ve selected to hold in-country launches of the report. Nigeria’s will be held on 17 May, South Africa’s on 22 June, and the other two will be announced shortly.
Ghana is one of the four “innovation collaborative” chosen by the U.S. Institute of Medicine’s Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education.
IOM Selects Four Innovation Collaboratives
The U.S. Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Board on Global Health has chosen 4 innovation collaboratives from 12 proposals from academic institutions around the world. The collaboratives are intended to incubate and pilot ideas for reforming health professional education called for in the Lancet Commission report and will be a key part of IOM’s new Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, to be launched in March 2012. The development of the Forum has been spearheaded by Patrick Kelley, MD, DrPH, who is director of the Boards on Global Health and African Science Academy Development at IOM and was one of the Lancet report Commissioners.
Progress on IAMP International Dissemination and Advocacy Project
Since signing on in October 2011 as a partner in the global reform effort, the InterAcademy Foundation of the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP), led by Bernie Jones, has taken advantage of several opportunities to increase global dialogue and spur health professional education reform.