Reimagining Medical Education in Iraq: Advancing from Outcome-Based Models to Trust-Based Learning for Competent Health Professionals

Abstract

The focus on clinical and hospital-oriented health services has prevented the development of a strong public health workforce in Iraq, though their importance is recognized. Education reform became a priority to many countries including Iraq which has a long and bright history in medical education in the region. Curriculum analysis of current Iraqi medical and health professional colleges is an important step to identifying gaps and challenges, designing a new curriculum responding to health needs and priorities, and ensuring graduating students with the necessary competencies and skills through analyzing curriculum outlines and contents, analyzing the characteristics of the curriculum, studying the curriculum design and structure and the assumptions underlying curriculum organization. The study's objectives focus mainly on; Analyzing the Current Medical Education System in Iraq, Assessing the Impact of Health System Challenges on Medical Education, and Introduce Trust-Based Learning as a Solution. The Enhanced Output is revealed in a constructive manner knowing that as Understanding theory can help apply some useful teaching & learning strategies, learners can respond physically to the curriculum, the patients, and the teachers, and in so doing within a contemporary active/interactive situation, theory that has practiced shall in turn practice. This is the relation between these two concepts. Learning, as a phenomenon and process, is not determined by one factor, but by relations and interactions of all the factors: the whole learning context matters.