Join Us for The AFREhealth USCF STRIPE HIV WEBINAR

Introduction: This webinar will provide guidelines and pointers to assist learning facilitators to plan and conduct online interactive interprofessional workshops.

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Join Us for The AFREhealth COVID-19 Webinar Series 

This webinar will explore the increasing prevalence of people who have been infected with COVID-19 and who now present with Long COVID” or post-COVID syndrome. Participants will hear from two physiotherapists who themselves are living with Long COVID, about their daily challenges and how they are managing in their daily lives. Participants will also be provided with evidence-based information on the prevalence and pathology of Long COVID, as well as a closer look at the cardiopulmonary complications associated with the condition.

Date: Wednesday 31 March 2021

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AFREhealth leadership, in collaboration with UCSF, is developing a Moodle type learning management system (LMS) to be used by all AFREhealth member institutions. Although already included in AFREhealth’s strategic plan, the LMS became an urgent priority with the challenges brought on by the Covid19 pandemic. The AFREhealth LMS server is currently hosted by UKZN, its configurations are completed, and STRIPE HIV modules are being uploaded on the site. This webinar introduced the vision for the use of the AFREhealth LMS and highlighted innovations in remote and e-learning developed by STRIPE schools. Experiences of piloting a STRIPE HIV course on an LMS; and a preview of STRIPE HIV module/s on AFREhealth’s new LMS was also shared.

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Join Us for an AFREhealth-UCSF STRIPE HIV dissemination webinar

Showcasing STRIPE HIV work from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Lesotho

Introduction: Starting in 2019, a team from AFREhealth and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), led by Amb. Goosby and with funding from Human Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), embarked on a project: Strengthening InterProfessional Education to Improve HIV Care Across Africa (STRIPE HIV). STRIPE HIV aims to build health workforce capacity across Africa to achieve HIV epidemic control. It has also sought to reshape how health professions training is delivered, emphasizing the importance of team-based learning as an instructional approach to prepare for effective, collaborative work within a cohesive group. This webinar will showcase the achievements, results and lessons learnt of STRIPE-HIV. Participants will hear how the training has been done in various countries, and learn about various innovations that has been implemented.

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Join Us for The AFREhealth Webinar by the Health Professions Education Research Technical Working Group (TWG)

The disruption of clinical training programs and the advocacy efforts to prioritize training of health workers during the COVID pandemic has amplified the questions around safety, resilience and value of bedside teaching as a fundamental ingredient of medical and nursing education. The panel of seasoned faculty will share experiences and recommendations for repositioning bedside teaching in the face of COVID 19 and future epidemics.

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Join us for the Webinar on Accreditation featuring ECFMG®│FAIMER® and WFME

To strengthen the quality and performance of the health workforce in Africa during and after COVID-19, Well-functioning regulatory mechanisms, such as registration, licensing/certification bodies, and accreditation processes for training institutions remain key. This webinar will show case the state of accreditation of HWF training in Africa, provide a summary report on the 2019 Global Symposium on Health Workforce Accreditation and Regulation held in Turkey by WHO and ECFMG|FAIMER, coupled with an overview of the current World Federation of Medical Education (WFME) guidelines on accreditation.

• Summary report- 2109 Global HWF Symposium on accreditation - W.Pinsky
• HWF Accreditation and Regulation in Africa - D. Gordon

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