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Improving Quality of Education in Extreme Adversities-The Case of Libya ISSN: 2688-8408 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.17352/jbm MEDICAL GROUP Received: 19 March, 2020 Research Article Accepted: 29 May, 2020 Published: 30 May, 2020 *Corresponding author: Aisha Nasef, Authority of Improving Quality of Natural science Research and Technology, Libya, Tel: + 218910419561; E-mail: Keywords: Medical; Education; Universities; Quality Education in Extreme assurance; Accreditation; Libya Adversities-The case of Libya https://www.peertechz.com Aisha Nasef1,2*, Mohamed A Al-Griw3 and Adel El Taguri4 1Authority of Natural science Research and Technology, Libya 2Scientifi c Council of Laboratory Medicine/ Medical Specialty council, Libya 3Quality and Performance Evaluation Offi ce University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya 4National Center for Accreditation of Health Establishments, Libya Introduction An important prerequisite for this development is initiation and use of WFME Global Standards program in 1997 in all six History of medical education in Libya spans over a period WHO/WFME regions as a basis for quality improvement of of 50 years. Medical education started in faculty of medicine at medical education [7]. Benghazi in 1970, and at Tripoli in 1973. Both medical schools performed their main core function and their graduates Global Standards for quality Improvement divided the provided good health services locally and abroad. However, the standards into basic standards and quality development medical schools did not keep up with the immense changes standards. Basic standards, which are 106,should be fulfi lled that medical education experienced over the last two decades by all institutions involved in medical education. Standards for with inclusion of research and community services within their quality development, which are 90, serve as an incentive for main core function [1-3], development and as a leverage for improvement. Standards are defi ned in these two levels for each of the different domains Education of professionals must be adapted to practice in (Text box 1). order to meet needs and demands of the population and the health systems that serve them. Currently, the role of medical Text Box 1: Medical Education Global Standards for Quality Improvement. schools needs to be redefi ned and regulated in a world where 1. Mission and objectives specialization is becoming a requirement to practice. Medical 2. Educational program and principles schools need to transform their specialist training into a 3. Assessment of educational outcomes 4. Students community-oriented education in accordance with World 5. Academic staff/faculty Health Organization (WHO) and World Federation for Medical 6. Educational resources Education (WFME) recommendation, to reorient medical 7. Monitoring and evaluation of programs and courses education to meet current challenges [3-5]. 8. Governance and administration 9. Continuous renewal. Refl ecting the importance of the interface between medical education and the healthcare delivery sector, the Current status of medical education in libya WHO/WFME Strategic Partnership was formed in 2004 to improve medical education. In 2005, the partnership published In spite of initial promising level, quality of medical guidelines for accreditation of basic medical education. The education in Libyan universities progressively declined due to WHO/WFME Guidelines recommend the establishment of many reasons (Table 1). proper accreditation systems that are effective, independent, transparent and based on medical education-specifi c criteria Faculty of Medicine in Libyan international medical [5-7]. university was the only medical school getting a provisional 006 Citation: Nasef A, Al-Griw MA, Taguri AE (2020) Improving Quality of Education in Extreme Adversities-The case of Libya. J Biol Med 4(1): 006-011. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.17352/jbm.000020 https://www.peertechz.com/journals/journal-of-biology-and-medicine Table 1: Causes of deterioration of Medical education in Libyan medical schools. At Management At Teaching/ Learning process level At Environment Level Level 1. Lack of cooperation between ministry of Curriculum/ Teaching and Learning Factors 29. Lack of suffi cient facilities; equipped health as demander and ministry of 11. Out dated teaching with Teacher-centered didactic unidirectional study and library halls. Lack of education as provider of professionals lectures. standard and up-dated references, (9). 12. Out dated non-competency based curriculum that is lacking books and journals. 2. Six fold unjustifi ed proliferation of medical recommended inclusion of personal and managerial skills, and 30. Non-availability of internet to faculties, >3 fold increase in number of that could not meet societal needs (9), (11). promote study and research. student number in some years. 13. No adoption of WFME standards (12). 31. Absent or limited or inaccessible 3. Non-functional and ineffective research 14. Curriculum lack quality improvement and applied patient safety ( inscription to medical scientifi c based promotion bylaws, which should 13 ). journals. be revised urgently (10). 15. Lack of applied learning culture. 32.An iconic shortcoming of medical 4. Lack of quality management system in 16. Language obstacle and minimal student participation. schools represented in presence medical faculties 17. Topics are not representative to current and real problems and non- of photocopy offi ce to produce 5. Lack of medical education units in most responsive to community needs. copies of lectures, to use it as a of faculties, and established units are 18. Lack of and/or non-effective utilization of clinical skills labs. source of reading!. recent or not up to standards. 19. Merging of parallel private educational centers, where excellent 33. A Repelling environments with 6. Lack of accountability, and underfunding new graduates, or good tutors are teaching their own sub-standard shortage of appropriate hygienic aggravated further standards decline. curriculum ( 14 ). facilities 7. Universities are not independent, they are 20. Absence of research based education and culture. 34. Lack of an encouraging restricted by out dated un functional environments and facilities fi nancial laws and legislations. Teaching Staff such as; canteen (with healthy 8. Non-academic employees, such as legal, 21. Teaching staff are badly paid and most do not possess equipped affordable meals), sport halls or administrative and fi nancial staffs are offi ces . stadium. not professional and have a negative 22. Lack of full time engaged Libyan staff, that could improve and 35. Lack of medical research culture for rather than supportive role. create teaching methods students and staff. 9. Lack of policy for participation of doctors 23. Untrained teaching staff are below standards in teaching methods, 36. Un availability of state of arts in international conferences due to that resulted in bad delivery of subjects hospitals with skilled staff and fi nancial issue. When it is found, it's 24. Lack of training in conventional or recent recommended evaluation advanced technology suitable for assigned to non-motivated candidates and assessment methods, etc (15), (16). good standard education. with lack of post conference report where the staff present the new relevant Students: advances for colleagues in order to up- 25. Poor attendance of students, reported to be up to 80 % in 2020. date daily practice. 26. Huge number of students resulted in quantity a head of quality oh 10. Enrollment of very large number of health professionals and unfavorable outcome (17). students without having designated 27. Relying of students on private classes with outdated spoon fed, places for them. non-refl exive exam score based model. 28. Compromised performances of student. institutional and program accreditation on 2017. Of note, Europe with increase of fi nancial costs and economic burden Libya is neither included in countries served by agencies for both patients and government. In addition, patients pay with Recognition Status by WFME, nor among countries with an additional price because of consequent ineffective and/or application in progress [8]. incomplete management especially for cancer, trauma and rare diseases. Consequences of declining teaching level Road map for accreditaion in libya The decline in the quality of medical education led to exclusion of Libyan medical schools from the annual Road to accreditation composed of two phases. First phase is publications of international rankings, to loss of confi dence in establishment of a national task force for accreditation prepares Libyan universities, consequent loss of confi dence in Libyan for establishment of a national system for accreditation. Second doctors, with further decline in medical services. phase is establishment of sound Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) system with clear responsibilities at medical universities Benghazi medical schools achieved 33% of basic standards (Figure 1). in an assessment performed in 2018, followed by Tripoli medical schools achieved 22%. Other medical schools achieved Phase one is composed of the following steps to be taken less than 5 % of basic standards [9]. in order to establish a national system for accreditation for higher educational institutes (Text Box 2). The Quality Most current medical graduates are under-qualifi ed due Assurance Accreditation of Higher Educational institutes to sub-standard medical education, with resulting lack of professionalism, absent scientifi c attitude, weak creativity and (QAAHEI), currently named National Center for Quality inability
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