SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION
Every Wednesday, January 24 – February 28, 2024
TIME: 14:00 – 16:00 UTC
DEADLINE to sign up for this individual TUFH Academy = 15 December 2023
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Social Accountability is an approach to addressing inequities in healthcare – the contract that medicine has with society. Boelen and Heck (1995) define the concept of Social Accountability for WHO as: “the obligation of the faculty to direct their education, research and service activities toward addressing the priority health concerns of the community, the region, or nation they have the mandate to serve.” This definition emphasizes that health professions education institutions should improve on ways to educate medical graduates in the knowledge and skills relevant to their work that will have a positive impact on people’s health and be change agents for a more efficient, equitable, and sustainable health system.
The course aims to improve faculty members’ knowledge and skills, educate leaders in health professions institutions of the social accountability concept, and empower them to lead the change using positive approaches towards achieving Social Accountability within their institutions. Participants will learn the fundamentals of Social Accountability in this course, including designing and implementing, transitioning from theory to practice, evaluating via tools, and critiquing accreditation systems for adherence to Social Accountability principles. In addition, this course offers practical approaches, tools, and methods as utilized by Social Accountability experts worldwide.
Co-created by The Network: TUFH & University of Limerick

APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY AND RESILIENCE
Every Wednesday, March 20 – April 24, 2024
TIME: 14:00 – 16:00 UTC
DEADLINE to sign up for this individual TUFH Academy = 15 February 2024
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AI is an approach to positive change by discovering what works best for the individual, group or organization through powerful questions; increasing the value, being fully aware of the value as well as creating and delivering the changes – based on the following definition.
This course is designed to be experiential in that participants will use their experience in complex environments and apply AI as an approach to create positive changes. Each learner should bring a particular issue which they are wrestling with and apply an AI perspective to envision the desired changes and apply clear steps towards achieving this change. Anyone who is interested in creating a healthier world would benefit from this course. In particular, healthcare professionals or academics, health and education administrators, policymakers and members of Community-based organisations or community members involved in the health system may find this course useful.