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Aims To examine understandings of global health issues among nursing students following
participation in an international clinical placement during their pre‐registration university …

Give and Take looks at local drug manufacturing in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, from the
early 1980s to the present, to understand the impact of foreign aid on industrial …

Background Little is known about the breadth and quality of nonobstetric surgical care
delivered by nonphysician clinicians (NPCs) in low‐resource settings. We aimed to …

Background The shortage of a skilled health workforce is a global crisis. International efforts
to combat the crisis have shown few benefits; therefore, more country-specific efforts are …

Tanzania requires more health professionals equipped to tackle its serious health
challenges. When it became an independent university in 2007, Muhimbili University of …

Introduction: Previous studies on the identity development and motivation of faculty
developers have occurred with seasoned developers in a research-rich environment. We …

Background There is a great need for physicians in Tanzania. In 2012, there were
approximately 0.31 physicians per 10,000 individuals nationwide, with a lower ratio in the …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization advocates that health workforce
development is a continuum of three stages of entry, available workforce and exit. However …

Abstract Background The School of Medicine (SoM) is one among five at Muhimbili
University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS). It currently houses eight undergraduate …