Loma Linda University/Kabul Medical Institute
LLU/Afghanistan
State:
California
Country:
Afghanistan
Award Date:
2003
Award Amount:
$124,925.00
Cost Share:
$710,385.00
Other Partners:
Afghan Medical Association of America
To enhance the knowledge and clinical skills Afghanistan needs to address current health needs, the partners are 1) implementing a program for faculty development and continuing medical education, 2) reorganizing and updating basic and clinical science programs at Kabul Medical Institute (KMI), and 3) delivering essential equipment for effective teaching. Two administrators from KMI visited Loma Linda University (LLU) to learn how a medical school is organized and functions, and to obtain details about the LLU curriculum and board exam preparations. Five physicians from LLU’s Emergency Department, NICU, and Department of Pediatrics presented a series of lectures at KMI on advanced cardiac life support for adult and pediatric patients. Two faculty from KMI attended LLU on a three-month faculty development fellowship that focused on lecture development, production and administration of exams, building English skills, and classroom observation. LLU partners have taught ESL to KMI faculty and students onsite and have also set up both a microscope lab (with 34 microscopes) and a computer lab (with 45 computers) at KMI. In addition to LLU’s role as educators in the partnership, KMI and the Ministry of Health have come to rely on LLU to help solve overwhelming and broader problems of rebulding a health care system and network.