Teaching Skills in West African Medical and Nursing Schools

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Teaching Skills in WestAfrican Medical
andNursing Schools
ACP-EU Cooperation Programme in Higher Education

• Akinyinka O. Omigbodun
• Provost, College of Medicine,
• University of Ibadan,
• University College Hospital,
• Ibadan, Nigeria

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EDULINK
WELCOME TO IBADAN
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About the University of Ibadan

• Founded in 1948 as a College of the University
  of London
• Three Faculties at Inception Arts, Science
  Medicine
• Became an Autonomous University in 1962,
  following Nigerias Independence in 1960
• Now has 13 Faculties (including the 4 that form
  the College of Medicine)

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ENTRANCE TO COM,UI
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College of Medicine, University of Ibadan

• Four Faculties
• Basic Medical Sciences
• Clinical Sciences
• Dentistry
• Public Health
• Two Research Institutes
• Institute of Advanced Medical Research Training
• Institute of Child Health

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL,IBADAN
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PROBLEM Academic Skills for
Medical Teachers

• Teaching Skills
• Training in Research Methods

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Academic Skills for Medical Teachers

• Discussions Between Faculty at Ibadan and
  Swansea
• MoU
• Collaboration on e-Learning
• Involvement of THET Liverpool
• Preparations to Pursue EDULINK Support

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Problem Definition
EDULINK

• Shortage of Qualified Health Personnel in the
  West African sub-Region
• Several New Institutions Founded to Train Health
  Care Personnel
• Academic staff in the Institutions have limited
  knowledge of modern medical education such as
• curricula design
• assessments and examinations
• teaching quality assurance.

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Problem Definition 2
EDULINK

• Many have Poor Understanding of Modern Research
  Methods
• Institutions often cannot release their staff to
  go away for further training because of
  accreditation requirements
• Urgent need for quality assurance in the
  training of personnel

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Tackling the Problems

• Enhance the quality of undergraduate teaching by
  training teachers academic skills while keeping
  them on the job in their various institutions
• Teach research methods by getting the teachers to
  execute projects they identify, to solve specific
  problems they encounter in their institutions

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Institutional Support
September 2007
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Faculty of Education
Dean
September 2007
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Completion of Proposal
EDULINK

• Contact with Partner Institutions in West Africa
• Meetings with WACS WACP (Quality Assurance)
• Finishing touches
• Submission of Proposal

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Main Features

• Develop and run a two year, part-time, modular
  M.Sc. course based at the University of Ibadan in
  Nigeria for biomedical teachers in six West
  African Universities
• Keep participants teaching in their home
  institutions while taking the course
• e-Learning other Distance Learning methods
• Draw on the expertise of two leading
  Universities in the UK and the Tropical Health
  Education Trust THET
• Request help from regional postgraduate
  professional Colleges for quality assurance

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PARTNERS ASSOCIATES
EDULINK

• Partners
• University of The Gambia, The Gambia
• University of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone
• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
  Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
• Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
• University of Jos, Nigeria
• University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Swansea University, United Kingdom
• Associates
• West African College of Physicians (WACP),
  Nigeria
• West African College of Surgeons (WACS), Nigeria
• Tropical Health and Education Trust, United
  Kingdom

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Expected Impact
EDULINK

• Train 4 teachers per year from the Medical
  Nursing Schools of each of the participating
  Universities to be more effective teachers and
  researchers.
• Have these teachers apply their newly acquired
  skills in their institutions right from during
  the period of their training
• Improve the quality of medical and nursing
  graduates of participating universities

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Difficulties Encountered

• Getting institutional approval for the programme
  this is the first distance-learning based
  Masters level degree programme at Ibadan fear
  of the novel
• Setting up the e-Learning infrastructure
• Having sufficient numbers of trained medical
  educators to serve as tutors
• Change in leadership in Partner Institutions

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Difficulties Encountered
EDULINK

• Getting West African Partner Institutions to
  buy-in into the initiative
• Designing appropriate course modules for
  e-Learning, bearing in mind the limitations in
  communication infrastructure in the sub-Region
• Getting teachers in Ibadan to accept the
  additional workload

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Sustainability Issues
EDULINK

• Appropriate and affordable fees for prospective
  students
• Evidence that course graduates are more
  effective teachers and better academics
• Maintaining and renewing the infrastructure for
  learning
• Getting course graduates to serve as mentors and
  tutors for new entrants

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Further Information

• http//www.acp-edulink.eu/Documents/EN-Teachingsk
  illsinWestAfricanmedicalandnursingschools.pdf

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Acknowledgements

• Steve Allen University of Swansea
• Gbenro Sodeinde University of Ibadan
• John MacDermott THET, UK
• Ousman Nyan University of the Gambia
• Abdul Rafindadi ABU, Zaria, Nigeria
• Innocent Ujah University of Jos
• Sahr Gevao University of Sierra Leone
• Tsiri Agbenyega KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

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Acknowledgements

• Afolabi Lesi Secretary-General, WACP
• Clement Nwawolo Secretary-General, WACS
• Ayo Oluwatosin Course Director, UI
• Labode Popoola Dean Postgraduate School, UI
• Francis Egbokhare Director, DLC, UI
• Morayo Atinmo Dean Faculty of Education, UI
• Olufemi Bamiro Vice Chancellor, UI

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• Thank You