Delivering effective medical education in Iraq: Transition from outcome-based learning to future trust-based learning

Abstract

Health professionals in Iraq include physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurse lab technicians, etc. The present reports have contended that the health system is still oriented toward the curative side and inpatient care. Iraq has 1700 health centers, but according to the previous report, less than half are without a professional. For now, there are 31 colleges of medicine in Iraq.

 There is an immediate demand to restructure our higher health professional education based on global standards, which are converging evolutionarily into unity as agreed standards. The WFME initiates these standards for basic medical education in many countries in the world. The rules are always in nine parts with 36 subparts.

 We believe that the three closely related core components of effective medical education in today's world should be: A curriculum suited to the 21st century, including new challenges of highly competent academic teachers for this curriculum, having state-of-the-art facilities and infrastructure for imparting the outcome-based training doctors that orient them to meet the challenge and ensure a transition from outcome based education through competency-based up to trust-based education. High-performing medical and health institutions in the Western world are massively investing in the first three components above, advancing competency-based education and a trust-based education approach.