{"id":70,"date":"2022-12-12T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staffpages.uofk.edu\/zeinelabdin-karrar\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T10:00:19","slug":"sudan-medical-council-2009-to-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staffpages.uofk.edu\/zeinelabdin-karrar\/sudan-medical-council-2009-to-june-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Medical Council 2009 to June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><strong><u>AS President of Sudan Medical Council 2009 to June 2018<\/u><\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0<strong><u>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">An accreditation policy for Medical schools was endorsed and planned activities on: advocacy, training of assessors, and creating partnerships with medical schools and higher education were conducted in the form of a series of workshop and forms and meetings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">The first round of accreditation o Medical schools was conducted 2010-20012 and included 24 medical schools<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Policy and bylaws for accreditation of Pharmacy and dental schools was endorsed in 2011 advocacy workshops and training of assessors conducted<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Represented SMC in IAMRA general meeting and conference: Medical Regulations, Evaluating Risk and Reducing Harm to Patients. GMC-UK London9-12 September\u00a0 2014\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">SMC Update of Standards advocacy workshop\u00a0 November \u00a02014<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">WHO\/EMRO strengthening Medical Education in EM Region.26-29 November 2014. Cairo ( presented SMC sudan experience in introducing Social Accountability in\u00a0 curricula of Medical Schools)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Sudanese Pediatrics Association conference 5-7 December 20014 Khartoum.(presentation the role and challenges\u00a0 to pediatricians in training young doctors on professionalism)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">SMC first Health Forum. 27-28 December 2014 Khartoum (presentation on medical professionalism and the role of consultants In nurturing professionalism ).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">EMRO Inter-country Training of Trainers course on complementary feeding of children 6-24 months. Khartoum, Sudan. 23-27 August 2015 (Course Director)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Headed Organization and conduction the following activities in 2015:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">SMC Local Workshops on Accreditation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">National Advocacy workshop of policy and standards of accreditation 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">National Advocacy and training workshop Self Study Guide June 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Training of assessors on Updated Accreditation Guidelines 27-28 October 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Assessment and evaluation visit for SMC pilot project on linking Medical Schools with the Health system through contextualizing Social accountability concept in their curricula and introducing Professionalism courses: Prof Janet Grant and Prof Jack Boulet evaluation visit\u00a0 16-20 August 2015-<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">An extremely positive report was received in October 2015 and availed Partners Federal Ministry of Health ,Global Fund, WHO and Ministry of Higher Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">SMA-UK&amp; Ireland Conference 19-21 December 2015 Khartoum(two presentations)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">SMC experience in Contextualizing Ethics Teaching<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">SMC efforts in Teaching and Training of Professionalism Sudan Medical Council was mandated for accreditation of Medical in 2004\u00a0 (14). An administrative structure was established, a policy document was passed, adapted\u00a0 national standards\u00a0 based on WFME standards for basic medical education and aligned with the \u201cmodel College\u201d standards\u00a0 were adopted. Plans and activities including wide advocacy , training of assessors and collaborative work with medical schools and health partners were executed including\u00a0 the first round of external evaluation of 22 medical schools out of 24 targeted<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Since 2009 the advocacy and training efforts were linked to WFME through participation of senior advisers in workshops and assessors training as well advice on suggested future plans.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">In 2013 Sudan Medical Council strategy targeted obtaining WFME recognition as a national accrediting body a prime goal and worked to fulfill the recognition criteria.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Necessary WFME recognition criteria were fulfilled and SMC documents were edited, published and distributed including:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">SMC Profile<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Accreditation Policy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Accreditation Standards<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">Self-Study Guide<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">SMC Accreditation Procedures<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><strong><u>That was successfully attained on5th of June 2018 , Sudan becoming the 9<sup>th<\/sup> country to achieve that worldwide \u00a0and the first in Africa and the Middle East.<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\">. Two medical schools(Khartoum and Gezira) were accredited since then and the initial indicators of the positive impact of recognition were evident, a number of medical schools submitted their applications and self-study documents for starting the accreditation process by SMC, public debate on quality of medical education and the impact of accreditation on graduate outcome as well as support at higher legislative and executive levels were promising<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS President of Sudan Medical Council 2009 to June 2018 \u00a0\u00a0:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An accreditation policy for Medical schools was endorsed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2038,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-publications.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpages.uofk.edu\/zeinelabdin-karrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpages.uofk.edu\/zeinelabdin-karrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpages.uofk.edu\/zeinelabdin-karrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpages.uofk.edu\/zeinelabdin-karrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpages.uofk.edu\/zeinelabdin-karrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffpages.uofk.edu\/zeinelabdin-karrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/staffpages.uofk.edu\/zeinelabdin-karrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpages.uofk.edu\/zeinelabdin-karrar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}