Project Sino, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, supports Tajikistan to develop affordable and sustainable models of Primary Health Care and to increase health sector reform implementation capacities by enhancing staff skills and abilities.

 

From 4-8 June 2007 the Swiss Centre for International Health organized a study tour in view of reinforcing the objectives of project Sino and to expose six senior policy and decision-makers from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education to the system in under-graduate, graduate and post-graduate training for family medicine. The program included exchanges with members of the medical faculty of the University of Basel and Zürich, resident doctors working at the level of district hospitals and general practitioners. These interactions were complemented by presentations on the Bologna reform, pedagogical approaches, principles of family medicine and licensing and accreditation practices for family doctors. The Tajik participants had further to conduct group exercise on relevant aspects of the Swiss system for Tajikistan. Results of this exercise will now be taken up in the context of project Sino. Overall, the study tour equipped the senior decision-makers with information on policy choices and modes of implementation and skills to take decisions for the training of family doctors.

 

Kaspar Wyss