TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of a bidirectional exchange on faculty and institutional development in a global health collaboration
AU - Bodnar, Benjamin E.
AU - Claassen, Cassidy W.
AU - Solomon, Julie
AU - Mayanja-Kizza, Harriet
AU - Rastegar, Asghar
N1 - Funding Information:
Dr. Mayanja-Kizza has recently become the Co-Director of the MUYU Collaboration, although she did not hold a direct supervisory role with the program at the time that the study was undertaken. Dr. Rastegar is the Director of the Yale Office of Global Health, through which the MUYU Collaboration is administered. Dr. Solomon is a consultant who receives financial support from Johnson and Johnson Corporate Contributions, which also provides financial support for the MUYU program. As requested, after review of PLOS ONE policy, the authors can certify that the disclosures outlined in the previously provided Competing Interest statement do not alter the authors adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Bodnar et al.
PY - 2015/3/23
Y1 - 2015/3/23
N2 - Purpose The MUYU Collaboration is a partnership between Mulago Hospital-Makerere University College of Health Sciences (M-MakCHS), in Kampala, Uganda, and the Yale University School of Medicine. The program allows Ugandan junior faculty to receive up to 1 year of subspecialty training within the Yale hospital system. The authors performed a qualitative study to assess the effects of this program on participants, as well as on M-MakCHS as an institution. Methods Data was collected via semi-structured interviews with exchange participants. Eight participants (67% of those eligible as of 4/2012) completed interviews. Study authors performed data analysis using standard qualitative data analysis techniques. Results Analysis revealed themes addressing the benefits, difficulties, and opportunities for improvement of the program. Interviewees described the main benefit of the program as its effect on their fund of knowledge. Participants also described positive effects on their clinical practice and on medical education at M-MakCHS. Most respondents cited financial issues as the primary difficulty of participation. Post-participation difficulties included resource limitations and confronting longstanding institutional and cultural habits. Suggestions for programmatic improvement included expansion of the program, ensuring appropriate management of pre-departure expectations, and refinement of program mentoring structures. Participants also voiced interest in expanding post-exchange programming to ensure both the use of and the maintenance of new capacity. Conclusions The MUYU Collaboration has benefitted both program participants and M-MakCHS, though these benefits remain difficult to quantify. This study supports the assertion that resourcepoor to resource-rich exchanges have the potential to provide significant benefits to the resource-poor partner.
AB - Purpose The MUYU Collaboration is a partnership between Mulago Hospital-Makerere University College of Health Sciences (M-MakCHS), in Kampala, Uganda, and the Yale University School of Medicine. The program allows Ugandan junior faculty to receive up to 1 year of subspecialty training within the Yale hospital system. The authors performed a qualitative study to assess the effects of this program on participants, as well as on M-MakCHS as an institution. Methods Data was collected via semi-structured interviews with exchange participants. Eight participants (67% of those eligible as of 4/2012) completed interviews. Study authors performed data analysis using standard qualitative data analysis techniques. Results Analysis revealed themes addressing the benefits, difficulties, and opportunities for improvement of the program. Interviewees described the main benefit of the program as its effect on their fund of knowledge. Participants also described positive effects on their clinical practice and on medical education at M-MakCHS. Most respondents cited financial issues as the primary difficulty of participation. Post-participation difficulties included resource limitations and confronting longstanding institutional and cultural habits. Suggestions for programmatic improvement included expansion of the program, ensuring appropriate management of pre-departure expectations, and refinement of program mentoring structures. Participants also voiced interest in expanding post-exchange programming to ensure both the use of and the maintenance of new capacity. Conclusions The MUYU Collaboration has benefitted both program participants and M-MakCHS, though these benefits remain difficult to quantify. This study supports the assertion that resourcepoor to resource-rich exchanges have the potential to provide significant benefits to the resource-poor partner.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0119798
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0119798
M3 - Article
C2 - 25799567
AN - SCOPUS:84925762360
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 10
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 3
M1 - e0119798
ER -