The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) of Ethiopia has launched a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to continually develop the competency of health professionals through standardized in-service training. The primary goal of the CPD program is ensuring quality health service by competent health professionals and linking the continuing education unit (CEU) with license renewal requirements. Arba Minch University (AMU), College of medicine and health science is a registered CPD provider in Ethiopia. Training has been given to health care providers based on the need for the healthcare system which is assessed by top-down and bottom-up approaches. CMHS has a dedicated staff and panel of experts in various disciplines who are engaged in various capacity building, needs assessment, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
AMU CMHS Accredited
- CPD Providers
- CPD Courses
Vision and mission
Vision: By the end of 2030, the CPD Center of the CMHS aspires to be one of the top five CPD Center in Ethiopia in providing CPD activities.
Mission: To enhance the provision of efficient and evidence-based quality healthcare services to society through accrediting CPD centers and providing need-based, standardized, and institutionalized in-service training programs focusing on prevention, care and treatment training in Ethiopia
Core values:
- Customer-first
- Quality training
- Teamwork
- Partnership
- Capacity building
- Equity and fairness
- Good governance
- Creativity and Innovation
- Responsibility and accountability
- Organizational benefit
The CPD and training director office shall be responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing comprehensive professional development programs by collaborating with professional associations, assessing needs, developing and accrediting course modules, leveraging eLearning platform, and ensuring compliance with accreditation standards. The office is structurally accountable for medical services and educational quality enhancement and innovative corporate director
Specific duties and responsibilities:
- Manage, design, develop, modify and present programs. Performing program needs assessment and make recommendations.
- Ensure ongoing compliance with national professional development standards and guidelines.
- Facilitate continuous quality improvement through structured evaluation of CPD programs.
- Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement in processes, practices and technologies used in program design and delivery to improve uptake and value
- Contribute to the development and implementation of communications plans to promote CPD programs which support members in their professional practice, professional development and career progression.
- Maintain budget, prepare contracts, approve and monitor expenditures, prepare budget requests and financial reports.
- Act as a liaison to internal departments, external entities and community organizations.
- Work with relevant teams across the organization on the delivery of mutual tasks and projects.
- Perform related duties based on organizations and associations need.
- May prepare and edit reports and/or newsletters and develop publication materials.
- May provide direct and/or indirect supervision to exempt and non-exempt staff (i.e., hiring/firing, performance evaluations, disciplinary action, approved time off, etc.).
- Ensure that all CPD courses meet recommended standards required by the respective professional disciplines
- Establish CPD panel expert committee for developing modules and providing accreditation following the set criterion for accreditation.
- Monitor the CPD and training center about renewal of center accreditation status.
- Coordinate CPD program registrations (including data entry of records, promotional activities and responding to queries).
- Develop grant project for strengthening the center
- This job description can be changed at any time
Contact person: Abayneh Tunje Tanga (PhD), CPD and training Director
Addresses:
- Nech Sar Campus, teaching and comprehensive specialized hospital building, second floor.
- Email:
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- P.O. Box: 21, Arba Minch, Ethiopia