Mid-level healthcare personnel training: an evaluation of the revised, nationally-standardized, pre-service curriculum for clinical officers in Mozambique.
In: PLoS ONE, Jg. 9 (2014), Heft 7, S. e102588
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Mozambique suffers from a critical shortage of healthcare workers. Mid-level healthcare workers, (Tecnicos de Medicina Geral (TMG)), in Mozambique require less money and time to train than physicians. From 2009-2010, the Mozambique Ministry of Health (MoH) and the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH), University of Washington, Seattle, revised the TMG curriculum. To evaluate the effect of the curriculum revision, we used mixed methods to determine: 1) if TMGs meet the MoH's basic standards of clinical competency; and 2) do scores on measurements of clinical knowledge, physical exam, and clinical case scenarios differ by curriculum?T-tests of differences in means examined differences in continuous score variables between curriculum groups. Univariate and multivariate linear regression models assess curriculum-related and demographic factors associated with assessment scores on each of the three evaluation methods at the p
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Mid-level healthcare personnel training: an evaluation of the revised, nationally-standardized, pre-service curriculum for clinical officers in Mozambique.
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| Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Feldacker, Caryl ; Chicumbe, Sergio ; Dgedge, Martinho ; Augusto, Gerito ; Cesar, Freide ; Robertson, Molly ; Mbofana, Francisco ; O'Malley, Gabrielle |
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| Zeitschrift: | PLoS ONE, Jg. 9 (2014), Heft 7, S. e102588 |
| Veröffentlichung: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014 |
| Medientyp: | academicJournal |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 (print) |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0102588 |
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