Satellites

Date: Monday 1st August 2022
Time: 10:00 – 12:00 East Africa Time (EAT)
Convener: University of California San Francisco

Thoughtful project and change management methods often fall by the wayside when busy clinicians are juggling too many responsibilities and priorities—arguably when they are needed the most! Come join this interactive two-hour workshop to learn tangible, applicable and low-effort methods for designing and managing projects as well as different theories and applications for managing change.

Learning objectives:

• Understand the basic tenants of project design and management
• Gain familiarity with key project management tools and skills
• Understand the purpose & relevance of change management
• Gain familiarity with different change management models
• Gain familiarity with different analyses and frameworks to support change management processes
• Apply Kotter’s model to a change initiative
• End session recognizing that thoughtful deliberate change management is a worthwhile endeavor for leaders to understand and apply in a range of circumstances

Date: Monday 1st August 2022
Time: 14:00 – 16:30 East Africa Time (EAT)
Convener: University of California San Francisco

Leadership and mentorship are key elements to successful academic health programs. There is much written about the qualities that a strong and effective leadership should have.  Less is available on how to cultivate the essential skills central to the delivery of effective leadership and mentorship in the academic setting. This half day workshop will equip emerging leaders from academic health professions institutions with the skills to function adeptly as mentors and leaders in their institutions.

Learning Objectives will include understanding concepts and skills necessary to be effective mentors.

1. Learn about mentoring tools and techniques, emotional intelligence and self-awareness to be effective leaders and mentors
2. To explore how to be adept communicators, both in spoken and written word and to learn skills for handling difficult conversations and people.
3. Enhance the effectiveness and engagement of frontline leaders with a focus on emphasizing diversity.
4. To form a cohort of health professions leaders within AFREhealth interested in mentorship for sharing best practice

Date: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Time: 16:00 - 17:30 East Africa Time (EAT)
Convener: AFREhealth & CUGH

The ACWG demonstrates that Global North-South partnerships are an effective way to generate rich ideas that focus on improving health systems through collaboration. Several programs at AFREhealth have been designed to empower and learn from partners in the South with support from collaborators in the North and South. AFREhealth seeks to contribute towards establishing and sustaining a responsive health care workforce, providing high quality, interprofessional and evidence-based health care in Africa. The organization functions as a network of networks in Africa, working across multiple countries and numerous regional and international partnerships to meet its goals. AFREhealth actively promotes collaborative partnerships as being key to achieving its goals. The ACWG collaboration draws together a diverse group of members of both organizations, representing multiple professions and sharing their experiences in various domains.

ACWG has in existence since 2017. It works towards, defining areas for collaboration for the two organisations. It has three main groups namely, Research, Interprofessional Education and Student group. The purpose of this meeting at the 2021 AFREhealth Symposium is to build on what has already been done and forge a way forward for the collaboration.

Date: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Time: 12:00 – 13:30 East Africa Time (EAT)
Convener: AfriPEN

This experiential workshop aims to model interprofessional education (IPE) through an unfolding clinical scenario. The participants will experience first hand what IPE is and what it is not, and discuss strategies of enhancing IPE in their institutions.

Enabling Medical Education Capacity-Building in Africa Equitable access to health care and high-quality medical education and training remains a persistent problem in many countries in the Global South. Africa has been and will be, for the foreseeable future, gripped by a severe shortage of healthcare workers. According to the World Health Organization, the current global shortfall is 7 million healthcare workers and it is set to increase to 13 million by 2035.

In addition, some countries in Africa do not have a single medical school. Others, such as Ethiopia, have expanded the number of medical schools as well as the number of students per school - both of which lead to significant quality challenges due to a lack of professors and at times junior academic staff. Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being to all at all ages (UN: SDG3) can only be tackled by increasing the capacity of medical education systems worldwide. This means supporting quality and achieving more scalable medical education for nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers through carefully tailored capacity-building efforts in a cost effective and adaptive manner.

The session will focus on the relevant aspects of digitally supported capacity building in low-income countries, covering technical challenges as well as content curation and creation. We will draw on Lecturio's experience in building innovative online delivery models for medical education, running schools in under-resourced environments as well as supporting existing schools both individually and via national projects.

In particular, we will highlight our experiences in Ethiopia, which was launched in partnership with the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and the German Corporation for International Cooperation to support innovation in medical education in Ethiopia. This capacity-building project succeeded in digitalizing the national curriculum, providing an online learning platform equipped with evidence-based resources, producing content with local experts on equipment use & maintenance, and offering continuous training & support. Emphasis is continuously maintained on academic integrity, improved quality of health services, and sustainable cooperation between the public and private sectors.

Date: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Time: 16:00 - 17:30 East Africa Time (EAT)
Convener: Lecturio 
Participants will gain an understanding of the key aspects of digitally supported capacity building in low-income countries, covering technical challenges as well as content curation and creation. We will draw on Lecturio's experience in building innovative online delivery models for medical education and provide participants insights into our experience in running schools in under-resourced environments as well as supporting existing schools both individually and via national projects.

Date: Thursday 4th August 2022
Time: 9:00 – 10:30 East Africa Time (EAT)
Convener: AFREhealth

The proposed workshop is targeted to young investigators who are planning to submit a research grant application to NIH and will focus on developing specific components of their proposal: Specific Aims, Significance, Innovation, Approach, Title and Abstract. The overall goal of the workshop is to help participants build on feedback from peers and workshop instructors with successful grant applications.

Learning Objectives:

• To learn about the NIH funding mechanisms including Career Development (K Awards) and Research Program Grants (R Awards), the NIH grant review process and strategies on how to prepare a successful grant application for these awards.
• To improve each participant’s ability to develop and write a scientifically well-conceived research proposal, using NIH’s proposal template as a model
• Consider how to create realistic timelines
• Understand the structure of a proposal budget
• List major components of a project budget
• Understand common mistakes to avoid in proposal writing
• Share in the value of ‘top tips’ for submitting successful proposals