Introduction: Medical education in South Africa is facing a major paradigm shift. The urgency
to increase the number of suitable, qualified and socially accountable health sciences …

Purpose Faculty developers play a crucial role in preparing faculty members for their
instructional responsibilities. In some programs, faculty developers are clinicians and …

Tanzania requires more health professionals equipped to tackle its serious health
challenges. When it became an independent university in 2007, Muhimbili University of …

Dental education is rich with examples of innovation as educators have responded to
advances in knowledge, technology, the needs of the community, and most recently the …

In many low-and middle-income countries, there seems to be a mismatch between graduate
skills and healthcare industry requirements due to variability in curricula. With the current …

Introduction: Previous studies on the identity development and motivation of faculty
developers have occurred with seasoned developers in a research-rich environment. We …

Abstract In 2005, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania
and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in the United States joined to form a …

Background Effective implementation of new curricula requires faculty to be knowledgeable
about curriculum goals and have the appropriate pedagogical skills to implement the …

From 2008 to 2011, the School of Dentistry at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied
Sciences in Tanzania revised and then initiated implementation of a curriculum to improve …

Well-educated and competent health professionals influence the health system in which
they work to improve health outcomes, through clinical care and community interventions …