Aim of the project is to support the modernization, professionalization and internationalization of postgraduate training in the field of children care management in Central Asia (CA) Countries - Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - in cooperation with HEI from Italy, Germany and Poland willing to share their expertise and experience in the fields of Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery and Child Neuropsychiatry postgraduate training. It’s a joint project organised as a feasibility study to become, if successful, a structural project for a sustainable and long lasting improvement in the organisation of postgraduate medical training in CA countries, not only in paediatrics but possibly also in other fields of medical care. By-product of the project will be to emphasise the importance of children care in the ongoing process of Health Care Reform in CA countries, thus contributing to reduce the infant mortality, through an updated approach to the modern techniques of neonatal and pediatric care, widely resorting on the tools made available by ICT. Outputs will be new curricula and new training strategies devoted to an integrated, holistic care of the child, harmonised with those adopted in EU countries and aiming to achieve the same results. To offer a solid and sustainable basis on which to ground these results, state-of-the-art ICT teaching and teleconferencing systems will be provided to all partners, with on-the-job training. Project’s preparatory activities of situation analysis and paediatric facilities census will also provide Governmental authorities an invaluable tool, offering a sound basis on which to build any future project of intervention on the health system and manpower devoted to the care of children in CA Countries.Ultimate impact will hopefully be a reduction in infant mortality and a substantial increase in life expectancy at birth for the populations of partner Countries, now living in average some ten years less than EU population.
General: - To improve children's care in CA through innovative postgraduate training;- To use the project as a template for a new way of delivering all medical training. Specific: - To increase the quality of professionals trained for the care of children; - To improve the level of competences in CA HEIs for the design and implementation of postgraduate curricula in all medical fields;- To introduce ICT technologies to implement an effective virtual interaction among partner HEIs.
Postgraduate medical training in Central Asia (CA), namely in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, hasn’t yet undergone the extensive process of modernization, professionalisation and internationalisation that occurred in the EU. Improving structurally the postgraduate training in Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery and Child Neuropsychiatry could help to bring infant mortality and life expectancy at the same European levels, fully in line with the ongoing process of Health Care Reform in CA.
<< Background >> Postgraduate medical training in Central Asia (CA), namely in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, hasn’t yet undergone the extensive process of modernization, professionalisation and internationalisation that occurred in the EU. Improving structurally the postgraduate training in Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery and Child Neuropsychiatry could help to bring infant mortality and life expectancy at the same European levels, fully in line with the ongoing process of Health Care Reform in CA. << Objectives >> General: - To improve children's care in CA through innovative postgraduate training;- To use the project as a template for a new way of delivering all medical training. Specific: - To increase the quality of professionals trained for the care of children; - To improve the level of competences in CA HEIs for the design and implementation of postgraduate curricula in all medical fields;- To introduce ICT technologies to implement an effective virtual interaction among partner HEIs. << Implementation >> - Need analysis: survey involving 652 stakeholders. Answers analysed in a baseline document;- Interaction among partners in 4 general meetings in presence and many online meetings, realised with the support of the hardware provided just before the COVID outbreak;- Drafting of new curricula by comparison between EU national guidelines / UEMS European Training Requirements / CA curricula in use; - Long-term (one month in one partner HEI) and short-term (1 week in each EU country) traineeships << Results >> Baseline document distributed to all CA governmentsVirtual meeting rooms equipped in 8 partner HEIsOnline courses in Genetics, Bioethics, ITC delivered and published in project websiteNew curricula in Pediatrics, Ped. Surgery and Child Neuropsychiatry adopted in 8 partner HEIs8 young HEI staff trained in Metabolic Diseases, Biochemistry, Genetics and Anatomy24 staff of partners HEI trained in postgraduate medical training management48 students involved in the process of curricula draft