Strengthening Pre-Service Education System for Health Professionals Project

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The project aims to improve the quality of education for health professionals entering the workforce in response to health system needs in Cambodia. It targets two priority areas. The first component aims to strengthen competency-based teaching and learning capacity in selected Health Training Institutions (HTIs) in delivering competency-based training program in six health professional areas: general medicine, dentistry, nursing, midwifery, laboratory, and pharmacy. The selected HTIs will receive financial performance grants to develop and deliver competency-based training programs. After implementing the grants, these HTIs are expected to improve their training quality and produce more competent graduates who will be able to pass the national exit examination before entering the healthcare workforce. The second components aims to improve the governance of health professionals’ education in Cambodia to ensure that the selected HTIs can produce competence health professionals. This component will support the Human Resources Development Department of the Ministry of Health to strengthen the governance of health professionals education in Cambodia. The governance tools include: (i) regulations and standards for health professionals education, (ii) national competency-based exit examinations by a national examination center, and (iii) technical assistance and knowledge exchanges on health professional education. In addition, this component will support day-to-day implementation, coordination, and management of the project activities on planning and execution, financial management, procurement, supervision and reporting, internal and external audits, environmental and social safeguards management, and monitoring and evaluation.