Adopt a Region – Medical Education Faculty Development

Location: Laos

Project description:

The Family Medicine Specialist Program is a 2-year training program. Family medicine residents learn at the provincial and district hospitals and spend 6 months in a rural community doing community health quality improvement projects.

Since family medicine is a distributed learning program, faculty from the University of Calgary have worked with Lao faculty from UHS and Provincial Health Offices (Ministry of Health) to support teaching and learning at these rural training sites. This is the only distributed learning program that operates out the UHS PGME office.

Faculty development has occurred in four provinces and all are training sites for the current Family Medicine Specialist Program.

Vientiane Province
Khammoune Province
Savannakhet Province
Champassak Province

Faculty Development includes training of provincial doctors on:

Role and responsibilities of preceptors
Feedback
Bed-side teaching
‘1-minute preceptor’ / 5-Micro-skills
Mini-CEX
OSCE

Medical education leaders at UHS have begun to give refresher workshops on these topics independently at the provincial training sites.

Project partners: University of Health Sciences, Lao PDR