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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Curricular transformation of health professions education in Tanzania: The process at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (2008-2011)
Journal of Public Health Policy, Volume 33, No. SUPPL.1, Year 2012
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Description
Tanzania requires more health professionals equipped to tackle its serious health challenges. When it became an independent university in 2007, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) decided to transform its educational offerings to ensure its students practice competently and contribute to improving population health. In 2008, in collaboration with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), all MUHAS's schools (dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health and social sciences) and institutes (traditional medicine and allied health sciences) began a university-wide process to revise curricula. Adopting university-wide committee structures, procedures, and a common schedule, MUHAS faculty set out to: (i) identify specific competencies for students to achieve by graduation (in eight domains, six that are inter-professional, hence consistent across schools); (ii) engage stakeholders to understand adequacies and inadequacies of current curricula; and (iii) restructure and revise curricula introducing competencies. The Tanzania Commission for Universities accredited the curricula in September 2011, and faculty started implementation with first-year students in October 2011. We learned that curricular revision of this magnitude requires: a compelling directive for change, designated leadership, resource mobilization inclusion of all stakeholders, clear guiding principles, an iterative plan linking flexible timetables to phases for curriculum development, engagement in skills training for the cultivation of future leaders, and extensive communication. © 2012 Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Ngassapa, Olipa David
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Kaaya, Ephata E.
Tanzania
Muhas
Fyfe, Molly V.
United Kingdom, London
King's College London
Lyamuya, Eligius Francis
Tanzania
Muhas
Kakoko, Deodatus Conatus Vitalis
Tanzania
Muhas
Kayombo, Edmund
Tanzania
Muhas
Kisenge, Rodrick R.
Tanzania
Muhas
Loeser, Helen
United States, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Mwakigonja, Amos Rodger
Tanzania
Muhas
Outwater, Anne H.
Tanzania
Muhas
Martin-Holland, Judy
United States, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Mwambete, Kennedy Daniel
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Kida, Irene A.
Tanzania
Muhas
MacFarlane, Sarah B.J.
United States, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Statistics
Citations: 14
Authors: 14
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1057/jphp.2012.43
ISSN:
01975897
e-ISSN:
1745655X
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Locations
Tanzania