Academic Medicine and Science Diplomacy: Medical Education in Iraq.

Clicks: 264
ID: 12393
2019
Article Quality & Performance Metrics
Overall Quality
Not rated
Combines reader engagement with the AI quality analysis. This article has not been analysed, so there is no overall score — reader engagement is measured and shown alongside.
AI Quality Assessment
Not analyzed
Readership in this journal
Emerging

Ranked #37 of 146 articles by views in Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Most read Least read

Bar heights use a square-root scale. Only the 120 most-read articles are drawn; the journal has 146 in total.

Mint this article as an NFT
Not yet minted

Create a permanent, verifiable on-chain record of this article on the Scimatic Network. The NFT is held in your Journament account, and you can withdraw it to your own wallet at any time.

5 SUSD one-off · no wallet required
Sign in to mint
Abstract
Physicians are infrequently selected to serve in the yearlong role of Jefferson Science Fellow (JSF) as Senior Science Advisor for the U.S. Department of State or the United States Agency for International Development. The authors discuss the role of a JSF in promoting "Science Diplomacy" from the perspective of one alumnus who sites examples of ongoing, long-term collaborative projects including one focusing on medical education reform in Iraq that would not have been possible without the JSF program. More than three decades of political and social unrest, terrorism, internal displacement of millions of Iraqi citizens, the arrival of Syrian refugees, international sanctions, and the effect of fluctuating oil prices that fund education in Iraq have all led to a standstill in modernizing educational systems and the need for reform. In 2016 new opportunities for international collaboration and travel allowed faculty from the Al Kindy College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Iraq, to visit the United States, explore U.S. medical school teaching methods, interact with U.S. faculty and students, and then, implement their vision of a revised medical curriculum. These faculty members shared their observations with the Iraqi Council of Deans, which represents all 30 Iraqi medical schools. Structural changes in curriculum content and teaching methods have been implemented with the goal of restoring quantifiable excellence in education and health care in Iraq. The authors close with lessons learned to encourage other physicians to participate in the JSF program, which offers a unique opportunity to influence foreign policy through science diplomacy.
Reference Key
kron2019academicacademic Use this key to autocite in the manuscript while using SciMatic Manuscript Manager or Thesis Manager
Authors Kron, Michael;Roenius, Matthew;Alqortasi, Mohammed Abdul Mahdi;Alhaidari, Taghreed;Hussein, Mohammed;Hamid, Ekhlas Khalid;Salih, Ibtesam Khalid;
Journal Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Year 2019
DOI
10.1097/ACM.0000000000002918
URL
Keywords Keywords not found

Citations

No citations found. To add a citation, contact the admin at info@scimatic.org

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this article.