Laporan High Level Commision: Forum Regional Kesehatan Universal Abad 21

Dalam rangka memperingati 40 tahun Alma - Ata, PAHO mengadakan Forum Regional “Kesehatan Universal di Abad 21: 40 tahun Alma - Ata” pada 11-12 Desember 2017, di Quito, Ekuador. Sebagai bagian dari gerakan regional ini, Direktur PAHO Dr. Carissa F. Etienne mengadakan Komisi Tingkat Tinggi: Kesehatan Universal di Abad ke-21: 40 Tahun Alma-Ata, dipimpin oleh Dr. Michelle Bachelet serta Duta Besar Nestor Mendez, dan membuat terdiri dari sekelompok pakar regional lintas disiplin, dengan perwakilan dari masyarakat dan akademisi, serta aktor politik, termasuk mantan menteri kesehatan, pemimpin serikat pekerja, dan berbagai gerakan sosial.

Tujuan Komisi ini untuk mengembangkan rekomendasi bagaimana memberi efek pada hak kesehatan sebagai hak asasi manusia yang mendasar, berdasarkan pada analisis kemajuan dan tantangan yang dihadapi oleh sistem kesehatan di Amerika. Dokumen ini mencerminkan posisi Komisi mengenai pelayanan kesehatan primer (primary health care/PHC), pencarian solusi untuk memastikan hak atas kesehatan, dan pendekatan yang diambil dalam diskusi, analisis, dan rekomendasi tentang cara menjamin hak ini. Hal ini didasarkan pada laporan yang disiapkan oleh lima kelompok tematik yang membahas:

To Be A Good Doctor, Study The Humanities

An emphasis on the humanities in medical school trains future doctors to become proficient in the social and cultural context of health care.

 A three-year-old was newly diagnosed with a brain tumor called a medulloblastoma. The pediatric oncologist, aware of the steep odds against the child's survival, explained the diagnosis and counseled the family. The doctor performed a bone marrow biopsy while singing the alphabet to soothe the child. Eventually, she comforted the family when their child died, tears in her eyes. As a medical student who was new to witnessing death, I could feel the grief of both the family and the physician. Later, as a doctor in training, I actively cared for a child with congenital heart disease as he died of multi-system organ failure. Eventually, when I became the doctor in charge, I determined the treatment course and was responsible for guiding the conversation when a patient's death was imminent.

Getting Accepted Into A Direct Medical Program From High School: It Can Be Done!

The average acceptance rate for 2017-18 medical school candidates was 7 percent, according to a survey by U.S. News & World Report. For students wishing to attend top-rated schools such as the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine in Minnesota or the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, the acceptance rates drop to 2.3 percent and 2.9 percent respectively. With such low acceptance rates for medical schools across the board, many high school students are vying for the few coveted spots at Brown Alpert Medical School’s selective Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME). The PLME is the only combined BS/MD program in the Ivy League, and arguably one of the most competitive direct medical programs in the world.

Disoriented medical education

Are our doctors technically competent, socially sensitive, ethically correct and morally incorruptible? My answer is Yes and No. Medical education in India is focused on curative, infective and non-communicable diseases and with little focus on preventive and promotive health. It ignores the diversity of medical practice.

An exploding number of medical colleges, devaluation of merit in admissions, increasing capitation fees; admission of poor quality of students with poor motivation; shortage of medical teachers, ill-trained teachers; shortage of patients and poor clinical material; and poor internship supervision have all contributed to this downhill trend.

Centralized infrastructure facilitates medical education research

The Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance has enabled a large number of research teams to conduct meaningful scholarship with a fraction of the usual time and energy. CERA regularly conducts omnibus surveys of key family medicine education leaders, a process that includes collaboration with experienced mentors, centralized institutional review board clearance, pilot testing, and centralized data collection.