Saturday 30 December 2023

Medical Education in Somalia: Navigating Issues and Challenges Amid the COVID-19 Epidemic | Chapter 3 | Advanced Concepts in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 9

This branch is intended to identify the issues and challenges of healing education in Somalia.  Reconstructing medical education has happened aspirational aim for the countries about the world over ancient times century to realize the entire health coverage. Through the unending endeavors of the world nations and their learning institutions, huge advances have taken place in the field of healing education over the last five decades. Nevertheless, being a low-resource and breakable country afflicted by protracted public conflicts and political decomposition, Somalia faced difficulties in building its medical instruction institutions. Accordingly,The study was conducted in Medical Academies & Colleges in Somalia between February to April 2021 utilizing a cross-sectional study design and 384 individuals were picked for this study. An author-developed inquiry and interview guide was utilized as dossier collection tools. The inquiry was designed for the teaching stick who were complicated in medical teaching and education process to address the demographic characteristics, instruction qualifications, education strategies employed of the facilitators, while the interview guide was grown for medical education managers and procedure makers to recognize administrative challenges in medical instruction. The respondents of the study were selected through calculated sampling. The calm quantitative and qualitative dossier were analyzed using SPSS and NVIVO program packages, individually. A descriptive analysis was begun using frequency and percentages for the unconditional variables with SPSS history 25.0 while thematic analysis was working with NVIVO version 12 for non-unconditional qualitative variables.Results: In the sample of 384 members, 311 males and 73 females were contained in the study with mean age 33 years. Most of ruling class had master’s degree and average education experience of 5 years. Most of medicine and health sciences organizations were private-owned operating in leased campuses. The study revealed a significant equating between the type of organization, staff employment type, graduate selection policy, purchase of the campus, and staff member satisfaction with current payroll.  On the other hand, it was also erect that the medical instruction in Somalia faces some major challenges containing shortage of trained able lecturers, lack of relevant healing curricula, shortage of education/learning resources, lack of administration oversight & licensing and lack of university policies.  Therefore, it is decided that Somalia needs to incorporate a competency-located curriculum, boost the availability of teaching and knowledge resources, provide preparation to medical educators on teaching approaches, and increase investment in research in this place field.

Author(s) Details:

Hassan Abdullahi Dahie,
SOS Community Nursing College, Somalia.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/ACMMR-V9/article/view/12847

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