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The inadequate density and distribution of healthcare providers negatively affects health outcomes around the globe. This is especially true in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: World Health Organization. Working Together for Health: The World Health Report 2006. WHO Publications: Geneva. 2006.
Source: World Health Organization. Working Together for Health: The World Health Report 2006. WHO Publications: Geneva. 2006.
CONTEXT:FACULTY CAPACITY
• A key barrier is the lack of instructor capacity to teach basic and clinical sciences. – Example: Ghana medical schools can only
admit 30% of qualified applicants.
• This is complicated by the duplication of effort in developing learning materials.
Ward Rounds. Photo by: University of Ghana. Ward Rounds at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Photo by: Cary Engleberg
When you look in textbooks it’s difficult to find African cases. The cases may be pretty similar but sometimes it can be confusing when you see something that you see on a white skin so nicely and very easy to pick up, but on the dark skin it has a different manifestation that may be difficult to see. Sometimes it is difficult for the students to appreciate when they see a clinical case that involves an African. I think that [locally developed] OER will go a long way in helping the students appreciate the cases that we see in our part of the world.
-Richard Phillips, lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, KNUST
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
WHAT IS “THE NETWORK”?
The mission of the African Health OER Network is to advance health education in Africa by using open educational resources (OER) developed by and targeted toward Africans in order to share knowledge, address curriculum gaps, and support communities around health education.
• OER Africa• University of Michigan• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology• University of Ghana • University of Cape Town • University of the Western Cape • University of Malawi• Makerere University• EBW Healthcare• Global Health Informatics Partnership• MedEdPORTAL
APPROACH
• The Network is building the socio-technical infrastructure to draw in more African and, eventually, global participants, while also developing models of collaboration and sustainability that can be replicated in other regions of the world.
ACTIVITIES: TRAINING/WORKSHOPS
OER Africa Convening, 2011. Photo by: Saide.
ACTIVITIES: MENTORING/CONSULTING
Photo by: Re-ality (Flickr)
Photo by: Sara Grajeda (Flickr)
Students in line for computer lab at University of GhanaPhoto by: The Regents of the University of Michigan (flickr)
Dkscully (flickr)
ACTIVITIES: PLATFORMS & DISTRIB.
Power outages are common. Bandwidth is very expensive.
OER is distributed offline and online by authoring institutions and the two Network co-facilitators, OER Africa and U-M.
Many slides in this presentation were produced in collaboration with Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer, Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, Greg Grossmeier, Emily Puckett Rodgers, and Susan Topol.