Medical Education

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The training that occurs through AIHA’s partnerships and programs is approached in two distinct ways: daily opportunities to enhance clinical knowledge and skills in the workplace environment and more intense skills-building courses offered at AIHA-sponsored training centers.

Using adult-learning methods and a “train-the-trainers” approach in which a select group of regional practitioners attend workshops and sessions to gain expertise before teaching new theories and procedures to colleagues in their community and beyond, partnerships encourage local ownership of the new programs. 

Regardless of the venue, this advanced training has resulted in new protocols for clinical specialties ranging from asthma and diabetes to peptic ulcers and pneumonia. Our programs have been instrumental in the adoption of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines that have immeasurably improved the quality of patient care and our partners continually strive to expand and enhance the services they offer by conducting periodic practice standard reviews to determine if the clinical guidelines they are using are cost-effective, make appropriate use of available resources and pharmaceuticals, and are suitable to conditions at their individual institutions.

One project that is tackling medical education on a regional level is the Central Asia Medical Education Initiative, a multi-country, multi-institution partnership that links the University of South Florida and the University of Nevada at Reno with the Kazakh State Medical Academy in Astana, the West Kazakhstan Medical Academy in Aktobe, the Kyrgyz State Medical Academy in Bishkek, the Medical Department of Osh State University in Kyrgyzstan, the Tajikistan Medical Institute in Dushanbe, and the First Tashkent State Medical Institute and Second Tashkent Medical Institute in Uzbekistan.

Together, partners are working to increase the capacity of medical institutions in the Central Asia region to produce high-quality graduates who are well prepared to meet the healthcare needs of their populations. Specific partnership objectives are to:

And, through our Primary Healthcare Program in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, a number of partnership-established family medicine centers have established clinical training programs that offer hands-on practical experience to medical students and established specialty care practitioners who are being re-oriented to primary care.

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