Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration
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The Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration is a university educational program to teach medicine in Ethiopia.[1]
The Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration was launched in 2008,[1] as a wider program that grew from an earlier 2003 collaboration called the Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Program.[1]
The Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration involves the University of Toronto providing teaching support to Addis Ababa University.[1] Both universities pay costs, the program is run frugally, and it does not receive any external funding.[1][2]
Since it started, the scope of the collaboration has grown to include 24 medical and non-medical academic disciplines.[2]
History[edit]
The Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration is the successor to the original, and ongoing, Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Program.[1] The Psychiatry Program has a syllabus designed by Addis Ababa University faculty, delivered by University of Toronto faculty.[1]
The Psychiatry Program provides training in physiatry to medical students at Addis Ababa University and works with priests to encourage referral to, and acceptance of, medical care for people with mental illness.[3]
Following discussions that started in 2008, in 2013, the collaboration grew into the Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine, and the partnership expanded to include the University of Wisconsin.[4] The Emergency Medicine teaching is done at the Black Lion Hospital (also known as Tikur Anbessa Hospital) in Addis Ababa.[5][4] The first graduates of the emergency medicine program graduated in 2016.[4]
Outcomes[edit]
As of 2017, 222 Ethiopian graduates have become university faculty due to assistance from the collaboration and a further 143 were enrolled in ongoing education.[1]
The program has increased the number of psychiatry graduates in Ethiopia and reduced the percentage of Ethiopian medical graduates who leave the country after graduation.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Wondimagegn, Dawit; Pain, Clare; Baheretibeb, Yonas; Hodges, Brian; Wakma, Melaku; Rose, Marci; Sherif, Abdulaziz; Piliotis, Gena; Tsegaye, Admasu; Whitehead, Cynthia (December 2018). "Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration: A Relational, Partnership Model for Building Educational Capacity Between a High- and Low-Income University". Academic Medicine. 93 (12): 1795–1801. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000002352. ISSN 1040-2446. PMC 6282678. PMID 29995668.
- ^ a b c "The 'bolus' model: a better template for internationalisation?". Times Higher Education (THE). 2018-12-26. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ Belluz, Julia (25 Oct 2012). "Throwing off the chains of mental illness in Ethiopia". Macleans.
- ^ a b c Wondimagegn, D.; Cornelson, B.; Rouleau, K.; Janakiram, P.; Ghavam-Rassoul, A.; Rodas, J.; Zemenfes, D. (2016-08-20). "Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Family Medicine: an overview of the dawn of family medicine in Ethiopia through an inter-institutional model". Annals of Global Health. 82 (3): 395. doi:10.1016/j.aogh.2016.04.648. ISSN 2214-9996.
- ^ Cadotte, David W.; Blankstein, Michael; Bekele, Abebe; Dessalegn, Selamu; Pain, Clare; Derbew, Miliard; Bernstein, Mark; Howard, Andrew (June 2013). "Establishing a surgical partnership between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Toronto, Canada". Canadian Journal of Surgery. 56 (3): E19–E23. doi:10.1503/cjs.027011. ISSN 0008-428X. PMC 3672439. PMID 23706853.
