In a bid to effectively articulate the quality assessment roadmap and procedures for its implementation in well being professions education, a three-working day hybrid conference titled, ‘Quality Measurement in Health Professions Schooling — Revisiting the Metrics’ was held at Gulf Medical College on February 25, 2022. The discussion board aimed to create an prospect for educators, regulatory bodies, healthcare authorities and public and private healthcare assistance companies to interact with professionals in the fields of good quality and evaluation, share experiences, and arrive up with improved assessment Devices
Additional than 30 speakers, students and leaders of innovations in health and fitness professions instruction, from 37 nations around the world exchanged concepts and skills at the meeting. The meeting, organised by Gulf Professional medical University, was held in partnership with Commission for Tutorial Accreditation (CAA) Ministry of Training (UAE), Dubai Health care Authority (DHA) and Association for Clinical Schooling in Europe (AMEE).
Drawing a participation of extra than 3000 attendees, the meeting was inaugurated with a keynote speech Awadh Seghayer Al Ketbi, director typical, Dubai Health care Authority (DHA). He stated: “I am pleased to launch this global party right now that’s connected with reconsideration of benchmarks for training in the noble healthcare professions to continue to keep tempo with the world’s urgent require of a healthful and protected everyday living.” He further more stressed on getting a common eyesight of what health-related instruction must be in the long run, the programs and methods to be focused on currently being responsive to unexpected emergency disorders as the DHA continues to search forward to all suggestions to increase the criteria of clinical education and learning and the demanded evaluation applications to make earth a much healthier position.
On a related notice, the consultant from CAA Prof Amjad Qandil, shared quite a few reforms being carried out presently and in the upcoming by CAA to make improvements to the specifications of assessment in health and fitness career instruction to deliver superior outcomes. He was satisfied with the good final result of the workshops executed and explained this would support to strengthen the amount of education in the UAE.
In addition, Professor Hossam Hamdy, chancellor, GMU, stated: “Over the final 25 many years, health and fitness professions instruction has modified from input orientation to output and outcome orientation. From how much the graduate is aware of to what he/she can do, from time-based training to rely on-based mostly instruction. The neighborhood will question us the dilemma: can we trust the graduate of this system of training? Can I trust him or her to handle me, my little one, or my spouse? This is fitness for goal. This is excellent training in its straightforward but sensible variety.”
Prof Hamdy additional elaborated, “We really should be asking ourselves how instructional quality and accreditation programs created a lot more than 100 several years at the stop of the nineteenth century are continue to made use of in the mid 21st century. Methods measuring programmes by counting hrs of pupils sitting down in a classroom and instructors supplying lectures. While, now studying can take place all over the place, distributed, and distant applying fast transforming technological know-how.”
The meeting also supplied educators with the opportunity to advantage from displays, workshops and discussions built by industry experts, concentrating on new ways and metrics in examining competencies relevant to different categories of overall health professions education and learning in medication, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, physiotherapy, and other allied professions. The 3rd working day targeted on conducting in-man or woman experienced team workshops, exactly where 250 college from several universities in the UAE joined palms, to occur up with the competencies which the graduate shall purchase and how ideal it is assessed. This mixed hard work concerning academia, regulatory bodies and health care suppliers have been aimed to ensure that a graduate can deliver ideal health care to the folks of UAE and globally.