Community-Institutional Partnerships to Strengthen Maternal Health Care

Case Study of the First Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialty Training Program in Liberia

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ID22070948
AuthorsAnn Marie Beddoe (0000-0003-0658-0379, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, corresponding author), Maureen Reis (Harvard Global Health Institute), Angela D Benson (0000-0002-9182-1271, University of Liberia), Angela Benson, Lise Rehwaldt (University of Liberia), John Mullbah (University of Liberia), Janetta Johnson (University of Liberia), Molly Lieber (0000-0002-6727-1783, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Andrew Dottino (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Corrine Maund, Sara Campbell (0000-0003-1628-4442), Vanessa Kerry (0000-0001-9363-6830, Harvard University), Julie Solomon (Cornell University), Whitney Lieb (0000-0001-8109-9425, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Michael Brodman (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Etedafe Gharoro, Etedafe P Gharoro (University of Liberia), Sadath Sayeed (0000-0003-3967-8532, Harvard University), Tej Nuthulaganti (0000-0002-6955-2714, Clinton Health Access Initiative), Billy C Johnson (University of Liberia), Jerry Brown, Jerry R Brown, Roseda Marshall (0000-0002-9514-4722, University of Liberia), Bernice Dahn (0000-0003-3954-8658, University of Liberia)
Year2022
Volume9
Pages779035-779035
Publication date2022-02-07
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2296-2565 • E-ISSN: 2296-2565
PublisherFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpubh.2021.779035
PMID35198530
OpenAlexW4210483532
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

Despite major setbacks to its health infrastructure and health workforce capacity, Liberia began its first post-graduate training program for physicians in 2013. Specialty training in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, General Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology were the four inaugural Residency programs that recruited graduates from the country's only medical school, A.M. Dogliotti College of Medicine. The Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program was designed to combat the rising maternal mortality and strengthen health systems to improve maternal care. The program adapted in the face of challenges posed by limited financial support, lack of specialist-faculty and general physician shortages and the Ebola virus outbreak. The manuscript discusses the challenges and successes of the program and demonstrates how the shortage of teaching faculty was addressed by developing a collaboration between local government and educational communities, a United States (US) academic institution and volunteers from the Global Health Service Partnership

Accreditation · Curriculum · Family medicine · General partnership · Graduate medical education · Health care · Medical education · Obstetrics and gynaecology · Political science · Pregnancy · Specialty · Workforce · Global Health and Surgery · Global Maternal and Child Health · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Medicine · Nursing

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