Debre Tabor University College of Health Sciences

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Introduction

Debre Tabor University (DTU) established the College of Health Sciences (CHS) in 2013 with three academic programs namely, Medicine, Anesthesia, and Midwifery. Currently, there are six generics (Midwifery, Medicine, Anesthesia, Nursing, Medical Laboratory Science, and Pharmacy) and six post basic programs (Midwifery, Anesthesia, Health Informatics, Neonatal Nursing, Pediatrics Nursing, and Psychiatry) undergraduate programs with hybrid innovative curricula.

Laboratories

There are relatively well-equipped skills development laboratories under the health science college. There are three skill labs in the college of health science

Joint skill lab which is located in two different sites
- Main campus: this skill lab has two big skill lab rooms with full equipment and has its own store. It is mainly used for preclinical health science students for all departments.
- Hospital skill lab: there are three different skill lab rooms which include: two joint skill lab rooms and one for Anesthesia students

The clinical skill labs are equipped with different simulators and managed by one skill lab coordinator. Under this skill lab there are five active lab assistance staffs

Biomedical skill lab: this skill lab we have four lab rooms
- Anatomy lab: it has one room for morgue and the second room for simulators or mannequins
- Physiology lab
- Pathology/histology lab
- Biochemistry lab

This skill lab is mainly functional for pre-clinical students and all skill lab rooms are located in the main campus. Under this skill lab there are four skill lab assistances.

Medical laboratory skill lab, it has five rooms with different units
- Hematology unit
- Parasitology unit
- Microbiology unit
- Clinical Chemistry unit
- Immunology and serology unit

These lab units are used for both pre-clinical and clinical students. Of the units three of them located in the hospital and the other is in the main campus. These units are used as investigative center for patients who visit the hospital. Under this lab there are five full time worker lab assistances.

Departments (Anesthesia, Medicine, Midwifery, Medical Laboratory Science, Nursing):

Anesthesia

It is one of the departments launched during the establishment of the college in 2013 with 15 students. In 2015/16, the department has three batches of students with a total of 54 students. For effective exposure to clinical cases, students are transferred to hospitals at year two and attached to other sites at year three and supplemented with skills lab to gain basic anesthetic skills. The department has a total of nine staffs (two Lecturers, three assistant lecturers and four graduate assistants) and moving towards making the curriculum hybrid innovative and problem solving, which is found to be effective in making teaching student centered and lifelong learner with required competencies.

Medicine

The department was opened in 2013 with 60 students to produce competent, compassionate and committed doctors that would meet the present and future priority health needs of the Ethiopian population and fulfill international standards for medical education. The curriculum we are implementing is a hybrid innovative and competency based. The core competencies medical students must demonstrate at the point of graduation are defined after the existing local and international documents on learning outcomes were critically reviewed. These competencies were then organized in to eight themes: 1). Scientific foundation of medicine, 2). Clinical skills, 3). Population health and health systems, 4). Communication skills, 5). Professionalism, 6). Management of information, 7). Critical thinking, practice-based improvement and research; and 8). Inter-professional collaborative practice. With these core competencies, medical students will take three qualification exams: Step I from pre-clerkship II to clerkship I and Step II from clerkship III to internship. After successful completion of their internship, students will sit for national qualification exam that will be prepared by the National Board of Examination (NBE). The years of study and duration is given as below.

In 2015/16 academic year, the department has three batches of students and 48 physicians (5 specialists, 18 residents and 23 GPs).

Midwifery

The department was launched in 2013 with the objective of producing competent professional midwives who are able to provide a promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative midwifery reproductive health services at all levels of health care system. The curriculum we are implementing is a hybrid innovative and competency based. The core competencies Midwife students must demonstrate at the point of graduation are determined by critical adaptation of existing local (the 2010 Ethiopian harmonized BSc degree midwifery curriculum) and international documents on learning outcomes defined by International confederation of midwives (ICM) were critically reviewed. These core competencies were then organized in to eleven themes: 1). Social, epidemiologic and cultural context of maternal and newborn care, 2). Pre-pregnancy care and family planning, 3). Provision of care during pregnancy, 4). Provision of care during labor and birth, 5). Provision of care for women during the postpartum period, 6). Newborn and Child Health Care, 7). Abortion and gynecology care, 8). Inter-professional collaboration and communication, 9). Professionalism (Professional Values, Attitudes, Behavior and Ethics), 10). Management and leadership, and 11). Basic nursing care. With these competencies, students will take qualification exam (internal comprehensive and external exam) to progress to professional midwifery practice. The program is designed for a 4-years study duration. In the first one year, students acquire foundational knowledge, skills and attitudes in biomedical sciences, patient-midwife relationship and public health. In the next two years, students will take life cycle based midwifery care modules that provide basic knowledge, skills and attitude necessary to practice midwifery profession. At their 4^th year, midwives will be attached for autonomous midwifery professional practice. Specialty areas include; Reproductive health, Clinical midwifery, Midwifery education, Emergency obstetrics, Maternity nursing and Child health. The structure and durations of each year are given below.

In 2015/16, the department has three batches in the regular program, two batches in the upgrade program, one batch in extension and one batch in the summer with a capacity of approximately 300 students. The department in 2015/16 academic year has 20 staffs (7 Lecturers, 8 at study leave & 5 Graduate assistants). The department has also future plans to start MSc programs in midwifery.

Medical Laboratory Science (MLS)

The department was launched in 2015/16 academic year by taking 32 students with the objectives of training medical laboratory science practitioners capable of providing comprehensive laboratory services in hospitals, regional laboratories and health centers and able to give training to subordinate laboratory personnel and conducting research and participate in community services in the area of clinical laboratory sciences and public health based on the existing problems and needs of the society. We are implementing the 2013 Ethiopian Medical Laboratory Science harmonized curriculum designed for a 4 years study duration. The curriculum tried to give greater emphasis on the learning in terms of knowledge, skills and competencies within courses and modules and focuses on how learners learn and design effective learning environments – strengthening the relationship between the world of education and the world of work.

MLS professionals work in hospitals, health centers, industrial medical laboratories, pharmaceutical houses, and research centers working with disease studies, and as faculty of training institutions preparing medical laboratory personnel. Specialty areas include: Medical/clinical chemistry, Microbiology, Parasitology, Blood bank/immunohematology, Hematology, Immunology, Cyto-technology and Molecular biology/genetics. The department has a total of 9 teaching staffs (5 Lecturers, 4 Graduate assistants) and planned to develop innovative curriculum, which is found to be effective in making teaching student centered and lifelong learner with required competencies.

Nursing

Nursing department was launched in 2014 with the aim of training BSc nursing specialties (neonatal, pediatrics, OR, and others of national interest). Nursing works in the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. The department is working towards training competent nurses that will work on improving health care practice; providing high quality promotional, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services for the community; conducting problem based health and health related researches that will help to address the communities’ problems. With key nursing roles in health promotion, safe environment, research, health policy and systems management and education and based on national needs and interests, the department has future plans to launch programs in the undergraduate and postgraduate studies. To this end, the department is conducting need assessment for BSc Generic and psychiatric nursing to open it by next year/2009 E.C. Currently, the department has two batches of upgrade neonatal nursing, one batch of upgrade pediatrics and child health nursing and one batch extension in the continuing program. For effective implementation of these programs, the department has 13 staffs (2 Lecturers, 3 at study leaves and 8 Graduate assistants).

Coordinators (Biomedical, Clinical, Skills Lab, SPH, EDC)

Biomedical Science

Founded in 2013 with the establishment of the college to support the implementation of the innovative hybrid curriculum of the Medical and Midwifery curricula. With its best effort, the department has established five biomedical science laboratories and tried to equip them with basic materials. Students are engaged in practical session for the theoretical aspects of their education given in the class. The department is trying to make the teaching learning process practice based. The department currently has 14 staffs (9 lecturers, 2 at study leave and 3 Graduate assistants).

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