7 to 6 years reduction UNZA Degree in Medicine cheers Professor Luke Evuta Mumba
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Professor Luke Evuta Mumba
By Derrick Sinjela
UNIVERSITY of Zambia Vice-Chancellor (UNZA) Professor Luke Evuta Mumba has hailed the Strengthening Health Professional Workforce Education Programs for Improved Quality Health Care in Zambia (SHEPIZ) for assisting the Schools of Medicine and Nursing Sciences to revise curricula and reduction of years of degree programme study from 7 years to 6 years.
While the degree programme of Medicine has been reduced from 7 years to 6 years, Professor Mumba is delighted that the SHEPIZ intervention has resulted in the Nursing Science programme running for 4 years instead of 5 years.
Prof Mumba virtually during a SHEPIZ Sponsored workshop on Module Writing at Kafue Gorge on Monday, Monday 8th February 2021, explaining that since its inception in 1965, UNZA, through its health training programmes, has continued to produce graduates, influencing national policy decisions and practice, with a notable influence on improved clinical service.
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“With the right support, the School of Medicine, and now the new School of Nursing Sciences have capacity to train health care providers at specialist level in response to the growing demand,” an elated Prof Mumba said in remarks circulated by UNZA TV
.And SHEPIZ Project Manager, serving as UNZA Dean, in the School of Nursing Sciences, Dr. Patricia Mukwato, thanked the participants for their willingness to impact the health care training through their individual contribution by developing modules
Prof. Mumba reiterated that UNZA has a deliberate policy aimed at encouraging innovative strategies for improving the programmes it offer and that the SHEPIZ project was one such strategy since the project’s main aim is to have innovative medical education programme enhancement focused on health services, multi-level research capacity building and continued development of sub-specialist trained health care providers.
“I would encourage you to take on this noble assignment seriously with dignity, bearing in mind that the tools we develop will be used to train health care workers for many years to come, as already mentioned, UNZA is in full support of this effort”, he said.
The four (4) objectives of the Module Writing Workshop were firstly; to ‘understand principles of distance learning, open distance learning, open distance e-Learning, and flexible learning; secondly to apply the principles of opening distance e-Learning to module development; thirdly to ‘plan and develop a module and fourthly to ‘integrate ICT tools in the module to enhance learning’.
SHEPIZ Project Manager, serving as UNZA Dean, in the Schoolof Nursing Sciences, Dr. Patricia Mukwato,
SHEPIZ is a project administered by the UNZA School of Medicine in collaboration with the School of Nursing Sciences is conducting a curriculum review workshop from the 8th of February to 12th February 2021 with the aim of imparting skills for development of online modules for Lecturers and Facilitators that enhance learning experience.
