Medical Education Partnership Initiative gives birth to AFREhealth.

Francis Omaswa,Sandy Pillay,Emilia Noormohamed,Vincent Ojoome,Marietjie De Villiers,Steve Kamiza,Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde,Peter Donkor,Seble Frehywot,Milliard Derbew,Yakub Mulla,Oathokwa Nkomazana,Sarah Baird,Fitzhugh Mullan,James Hakim,David Olalaye,Kein Alfred Mteta,Jean B Nachega ,Onesmus Gachuno ,Io Kibwage ,Nelson K Sewankambo

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(17)30329-7

Abstract

Medical Education Partnership Initiative gives birth to AFREhealth.

Highlights

MEPI was a US$130 million competitively awarded grant by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and National Institutes of Health to 13 medical schools in 12 sub-Saharan African countries and a Coordinating Center at George Washington University, DC, USA
MEPI has led to the establishment of ten new schools, doubled student intake in some schools, increased postgraduate student numbers threefold, and improved faculty expansion and retention.[1]
Grantees changed curricular to competencybased models that were more responsive to the health priorities of each country and ensured better delivery of such curricular by creating Medical Education Units to improve the quality of teaching and learning

Summary

Introduction

MEPI was a US$130 million competitively awarded grant by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and National Institutes of Health to 13 medical schools in 12 sub-Saharan African countries and a Coordinating Center at George Washington University, DC, USA. MEPI generated excitement and hope among the grantee schools and countries, and recorded the following key achievements. The African principal investigators expanded MEPI from 13 grantees to over 60 medical schools in Africa by creating in-country consortia that shared resources and experience.

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