Iraqi doctors seize first training opportunity in 20 years in unique UK programme

doi:10.1136/bmj.b4329

Published 21 October 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4329
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4329

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Iraqi doctors seize first training opportunity in 20 years in unique UK programme

Zosia Kmietowicz

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By the end of November, 330 doctors, 20 nurses, and 50 key policymakers from Iraq will have passed through the United Kingdomon a unique training programme designed to kick start the rebuildingof the country’s health system. Shadowing doctors in theNHS, the selected group of Iraqi doctors, most of them surgeons,are already passing on the skills they learnt during their visitsto colleagues back home.

The Iraq Clinical Training and Development Programme is a responseby the Department of Health to the conundrum of how to rebuilda health system from the rubble left by 30 years of war, invasions,sanctions, and civil unrest.

Once a beacon of excellence in the Middle East, Iraq’shealth service collapsed towards the end of the 1970s and iscurrently in need of a $1000bn investment to establish a functioninginfrastructure, said Adel Abdullah, inspector general of thecountry’s Ministry . . . [Full text of this article]

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