Accepted Type
Facilitated and Dedicated Poster
Code
LP6 - 01
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
no
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Research
Will the presenter be a:
Graduate Student
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
yes
Title
Assessing the Environment for the Implementation of a Global Health Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program in Africa: An Environmental Scan.
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
In 2019, a radiation oncology team at a Canadian urban medical centre was asked to develop and implement a global health continuing professional development (CPD) program in Africa. To inform program development, a narrative literature review was conducted. The following questions were examined: what is the current environment for global health education (GHE)continuing professional development programs and which programs exist in the radiation oncology specialty, what roles do they fulfill and what are their theoretical and structural underpinnings.
Methods
MedLine, ERIC and the Cochrane Database were searched using the following terms: global health, global health education, African healthcare, continuing professional development, blended learning, guidelines. Relevant articles were reviewed in their entirety.
Results
The literature review yielded the groupings: current environment of global health, global health education and global health education in the field of radiation oncology. Furthermore, this review identified deficiencies in the current literature. These include: no consensus on a definition for global health, the focus of GHE on undergraduate and post graduate medical education, focus on development of GHE competencies, lack of description of the structures and theoretical underpinning of current GHE initiatives, and finally, a lack of grounding of the GHE programs in local environmental factors.
Conclusion
While there has been an increase in the number of publications focusing on GHE and GHE CPD, there remain numerous deficits in the current literature. These gaps provide opportunities and areas of focus for those interested in GHE research and program development
Keyword 1
global health education
Keyword 2
continuing professional development
Level of Training
CPD (faculty development, CME)
Abstract Themes
Continuing Medical Education
Additional Theme (First choice)
Distributed Medical Education
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Inter-professional Education
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Elizabeth Wooster
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
