Strengthening Pre-Service Education System for Health Professionals Project

The objective of the Strengthening Pre-Service Education System for Health Professionals Project for Cambodia is to strengthen Cambodia’s pre-service education system for health professionals. The Project has three components. 1. Strengthening health professionals’ education governance component will support the Human Resources Development Department (HRDD) to strengthen the governance of health professional education in Cambodia. It will support the development and strengthening of regulations, standards, and guidelines for the governance of health professional education. 2. Improving competency-based teaching and learning capacity component will strengthen the competency-based teaching and learning capacity in the University of Health Sciences (UHS) and the four Regional Training Centers (RTCs). The project will support the development and delivery of competency-based training programs in six health professional programs: general medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, midwifery, and laboratory. Intended educational outcomes will be defined and gaps in existing curriculum frameworks and current health professionals’ training programs will be analyzed. The project will support the revitalization of the Health Profession Education Unit (HPEU) within the UHS. The project will provide Service Delivery Grants (SDGs) to relevant Ministry of Health (MOH) departments and Health Training Institutions (this) to carry out planned activities under Components 1 and 2. 3. Project management, monitoring, and evaluation component will support day-to-day management, monitoring, and evaluation of project activities, including planning and execution, financial management (FM), procurement, supervision and reporting, and audits, environmental and social safeguards management, and independent verification, and monitoring and evaluation.