Browsing by Author "Flinkenflögel, Maaike"

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The Desired Rwandan Health Care Provider: Development and Delivery of Undergraduate Social and Community Medicine Training
(Taylor & Francis Inc , 530 Walnut Street, Ste 850, Philadelphia, USA, PA, 19106, 2015) Flinkenflögel, Maaike; Cubaka, Vincent Kalumire; Schriver, Michael; Kyamanywa, Patrick; Muhumuza, Ibra; Kallestrup, Per; Cotton, Phil
What works well in primary care education in your locality, region or country? • The new undergraduate social and community medicine training (iSOCO) in Rwanda focuses on crosscutting skills, knowledge and attitudes in primary health care delivery. What challenges have you faced? • Challenges faced include programme sustainability (PHC), large student group teaching, limited resources and students being unfamiliar with the new online teaching platform with unstable internet accessibility. How have you addressed them? • The iSOCO development and teaching team was motivated to work with the limited resources available and to develop an innovative training with available resources. Strong focus of the Ministry of Health on PHC, the need of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences to become more socially accountable and long-term commitment of external partners increased the programme sustainability. What is the generalisable learning? • When students are exposed to the principles of PHC and social and community medicine early in the medical education, it is more likely they will become patient-centred and community-oriented health care providers who are good communicators, collaborators, managers, scholars, health advocates and professionals, as described in the ‘desired Rwandan health care. provider
Lessons from the field: Transforming Health Professionals’ Education in Rwanda–Contributions From Social and Community Medicine
(University of Rwanda, 2015) Cubaka, Vincent Kalumire; Kyamanywa, Patrick; Flinkenflögel, Maaike; Schriver, Michael; Ngabire, Emmanuel; Cotton, Phil
Health professionals’ education is undergoing enormous transformation internationally and also in Rwanda. We present the contribution of a Social and Community Medicine program at the University of Rwanda to this new era of community oriented, people centred and socially accountable health professionals’ education.
The Next Generation of Rwandan Physicians With a Primary Health Care Mindset
(AOSIS , Postnet Suite 110, Private Bag x 19, Durbanville, South Africa, 7550, 2015) Flinkenflögel, Maaike; Kyamanywa, Patrick; Vincent K Cubaka, Vincent K; Cotton, Phil
Globally there is a need for well-trained primary health care physicians at the district level. Physicians who focus on ambulatory care will be in greater demand in addressing the global burden of chronic disease and multi-morbidity, which are on the increase in Africa. Not surprisingly, family medicine has grown stronger on the African continent in the past decades. In Rwanda, education of health professionals has recently undergone several changes. Postgraduate training in medical and surgical specialties has been further developed in a constructive and inclusive way with support of American universities. Although postgraduate training in family and community medicine has been temporarily halted, the need to develop and enhance undergraduate training in social and community medicine was identified and efforts have since commenced. This raises the question whether postgraduate training was developed too early, at a time when undergraduate training did not yet embrace the concept of primary health care.