THE 2nd NATIONAL

HEALTH PROFFESSIONALS
EDUCATION & TRAINING
AND HEALTH CARE
CONFERENCE 2023
 RESOLUTIONS

1 To enhance health
professionals’
education and
training, there
should be deliberate
measures to ensure
interconnectedness
of health professional
training and education
and health service
delivery.
2 Development of
curricula for health
professionals should
be tailored to the
community’s health
needs, epidemiological
context and
demographic
challenges.
to join the health
3 Focus on capacity profession.
building of health
professional educators 5 HPE requires
to ensure quality interprofessional
training. collaboration since
all trainees have the
4 Infrastructural patient as their center
capacity of health of focus.
training institutions
needs to be improved 6 6. Digital health
to accommodate the training needs to
increasing numbers be embraced and
of learners who want enhanced to match
 with the current health
system dynamics.
Curricular review
should consider
job required ICT
competencies.
the demands of the
population. Therefore,
the use of improved
medical pedagogical
approaches is very
pertinent.

7 Health professional 9 Education and training

trainers should
uptake continuous
professional
development and
lifelong learning to
keep themselves
relevant
8 The realization of UHC 10 Health Education and
requires producing
a health workforce
with the requisite
competences to meet
require adequate
financing to achieve
quality and quantity
of training. Resource
mobilization from
different avenues
should be done
Training Department
need to embrace and
undertake specialized
care courses to address
 the HRH gaps / needs changing needs of
due to the changing the 21st Century. Such
disease patterns. strategies may include;
11 Achieving (i) SPICES Model
UHC requires of Curriculum
a multisectoral Development and
collaborative approach Review.
and yet many sectors (Student centered,
are unaware of their Electives, Problem
roles. MoES and based learning,
MoH should ensure systematic, Integrated
sensitization of the community based)
different sectors
regarding their roles (ii) Align Medical
Educaiton to the needs
12 Health Education of the World of Work
and Training requires
transformative (iii) Employ Student
education strategies Centred Padagogy
that will sustain the (iv) Develop tutor skills
 in Medical Padagogy with relevant skills
(v) Strengthen in Leadership, with
Internal Quality particular focus on
Assurance Emotional intelligence
and other Governance
skills.
Note; HET should 14 Public Health Nursing
outsource the college should be
relevant strategies given limelight to
that fit in the 21st offer Mental Health
century and the Nursing Program as
health car dynamics. Butabika SPN current
infrastructural state
seems inadequate
13 Ensure Capacity for the current
Development of
overwhelming
Managers of HTIs
numbers.
15 The entry Date: Thursday 7th
requirements to September, 2023
the Anaesthesia
and Radiography
disciplines should
be reviewed to
accommodate other
programs.
16 There should be
harmonization of fees
structure across health
training institutions.