College of Medicine in the Republic of Malawi: Towards Sustainable Staff Development


 
Language:

English

Authors:

Zijlstra EE, Broadhead RL

Series/Journal Title:

Human Resources for Health

Volume:

5

Issue:

10

Copyright:

2007

Description:

Malawi has a critical human resources problem particularly in the health sector. The College of Medicine (COM)is the only medical school. For senior staff it heavily depends on expatriates. We explore to what extent a brain drain took place among the COM graduates by investigating their professional development and geographical distribution. Using current experience with the postgraduate programme, we estimate at what point all senior academic positions in the clinical departments could be filled by Malawians. We demonstrate the need for expatriate staff for its most senior academic positions in the interim period and how this can be phased out. Lastly we reflect on measures that may influence the retention of Malawian doctors. [from abstract]
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