Education collaborations
The Office for Global Health work with our international partners on a variety of education collaborations. These can be as diverse as practical one-off workshops, train-the-trainer and specially tailored programs.
Here are a few examples of the education collaborations we are currently working on with partners in:
Huo dao lao, xue dao lao - Lifelong learning at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical School - 活到老，学到老
The University of Sydney Medical Program and Shanghai Jiao Tong Medical School are working in partnership to explore how the educational principles of problem-based learning and curriculum integration can be translated to the Chinese medical education context.
In November 2007, we held a workshop at Renji Hospital, Shanghai introducing the concept of problem-based learning which was warmly received. In July 2008, fourteen basic science and clinical teachers spent three weeks in Sydney experiencing problem-based learning and beginning to develop cases for their home curriculum. In 2009, we will continue to work together to consider how the new curriculum might be implemented and evaluated. Joint teaching and exchanges are planned for the future. Inquiries relating to this project can be directed to .
Building critical care workforce capacity via a professional development training collaboration
The Office for Global Health and Sydney Medical School have established a health education collaboration with the Timorese Ministry of Health, Dili National Hospital of Guido Valadares and the Institute of Health Sciences to build the critical care workforce capacity in Timor Leste.
The University of Sydney team will be working with collaborators in Dili in 2009 to develop and implement a sustainable three part evidence-based practical skills focused critical care training program for health professionals, consisting of two practical workshops and one train-the-trainer workshop. To assist with sustainability of training, the team will also formulate an ongoing education development plan for nationwide critical care skills training in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Institute of Health Sciences, Dili National Hospital, regional hospitals, community health services and other relevant organisations in Timor Leste.
Funding for establishing the collaboration and the development and implementation of the critical care program has been provided by AusAID’s Public Sector Linkage Program (PSLP), the University of Sydney’s International Program Development Fund (IPDF) and Sydney Medical School. Inquiries on this project can be directed to .
Timor Leste Health Leadership Program
Through the support of the AusAID Australian Leadership Award (ALAF), the Office for Global Health is providing leadership training to Timor Leste’s health-related professionals. The main goal of the program is to identify and train current and future health care, health management, health policy, and health education leaders from Timor Leste. It aims to build capacity providing short-term placements and training programs in Australia that will enable the delivery of evidence based health care, management, education and policy within the health care system of Timor Leste.
The program is individualised to suit each Fellow and emphasis is placed on exposing Fellows, via various means such as practical placements and training courses, to methods, theories, techniques and approaches that they can implement as well as use to train and lead others when they return to Timor Leste.
Seven Timorese health-related professionals will spend six to twelve weeks in Australia. The Fellows were selected from an outstanding pool of candidates. Each Fellow was chosen because of his/her leadership potential and is expected to impart his/her new-found knowledge to colleagues and students on return to Timor Leste.
(Photo at right, L-R: Dilhani Bandaranayake - Manager - International Relations, Maximiano, Joachim, Professor Bruce Robinson - Dean of Medicine, Moises, Lucio, Mr Abel Gutierrez - Consul General for Timor Leste in Sydney. Full titles below.)
The participants are:
- Mr Joaquim F Soares - Director, Klibur Domin Tibar (Rehabilitation Centre)
- Dr Lucio F Babo Soares – Senior Dentist, Centro Community Health Centre
- Ms Manuela M S Peirera - Chief of Staff for the Minister of Health, Ministry of Health
- Mr Maximiano Neno – Director, Oecusse Regional Hospital
- Mr Moises Andrade - Nursing Director, Maubisse Hospital
- Mr Augusto Joaquim Pinto - Head, Human Resources Department, Ministry of Health
- Dr Odete da Silva Viegas - Director General, Dili National Hospital
Inquiries on this project can be directed to .