@article{54db8b041091454c87d9619a6907f8fc,
title = "Community-Institutional Partnerships to Strengthen Maternal Health Care: Case Study of the First Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialty Training Program in Liberia",
abstract = "Despite major setbacks to its health infrastructure and health workforce capacity, Liberia began its first post-graduate training program for physicians in 2013. Specialty training in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, General Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology were the four inaugural Residency programs that recruited graduates from the country's only medical school, A.M. Dogliotti College of Medicine. The Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program was designed to combat the rising maternal mortality and strengthen health systems to improve maternal care. The program adapted in the face of challenges posed by limited financial support, lack of specialist-faculty and general physician shortages and the Ebola virus outbreak. The manuscript discusses the challenges and successes of the program and demonstrates how the shortage of teaching faculty was addressed by developing a collaboration between local government and educational communities, a United States (US) academic institution and volunteers from the Global Health Service Partnership.",
keywords = "community-institutional partnership, faculty mentoring, health system strengthening, maternal health, post-graduate education",
author = "Beddoe, {Ann Marie} and Maureen Reis and Angela Benson and Lise Rehwaldt and John Mullbah and Janetta Johnson and Molly Lieber and Andrew Dottino and Corrine Maund and Sara Campbell and Vanessa Kerry and Julie Solomon and Whitney Lieb and Michael Brodman and Etedafe Gharoro and Sadath Sayeed and Tej Nuthulaganti and Johnson, {Billy C.} and Jerry Brown and Roseda Marshall and Bernice Dahn",
note = "Funding Information: Despite major setbacks to its health infrastructure and health workforce capacity, Liberia began its first post-graduate training program for physicians in 2013. Specialty training in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, General Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology were the four inaugural Residency programs that recruited graduates from the country{\textquoteright}s only medical school, A.M. Dogliotti College of Medicine. The Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program was designed to combat the rising maternal mortality and strengthen health systems to improve maternal care. The program adapted in the face of challenges posed by limited financial support, lack of specialist-faculty and general physician shortages and the Ebola virus outbreak. The manuscript discusses the challenges and successes of the program and demonstrates how the shortage of teaching faculty was addressed by developing a collaboration between local government and educational communities, a United States (US) academic institution and volunteers from the Global Health Service Partnership. Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2022 Beddoe, Reis, Benson, Rehwaldt, Mullbah, Johnson, Lieber, Dottino, Maund, Campbell, Kerry, Solomon, Lieb, Brodman, Gharoro, Sayeed, Nuthulaganti, Johnson, Brown, Marshall and Dahn.",
year = "2022",
month = feb,
day = "7",
doi = "10.3389/fpubh.2021.779035",
language = "English",
volume = "9",
journal = "Frontiers in Public Health",
issn = "2296-2565",
publisher = "Frontiers Media S.A.",
}