Mubuuke Aloysius G, Kiguli-Malwadde Elsie, Byanyima Rosemary, Businge Francis
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Rural Remote Health. 2008 Oct-Dec;8(4):976. Epub 2008 Dec 8.
The Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University, is the oldest health professionals' training institution in East Africa. It has been training health professionals since 1924. In 2001, a bachelors degree in radiography commenced. After a curriculum review, the university's longstanding traditional curriculum was converted to a problem based learning curriculum with a focus on Community Based Education and Service (COBES). As a component of COBES, radiography, medical, nursing, dentistry and pharmacy students are sent to community health facilities where they are expected to participate in community services and other primary healthcare activities. This study was designed to obtain radiography teachers' and students' opinions of the significance and relevance of this community based training to radiography training.
Cross-sectional descriptive study.
Both students and teachers (91.4%) affirmed the community training to be significant and relevant to radiography training. In total, 71.4% of the students had participated in X-ray services and 39.2% in ultrasound services during COBES; and 68.6% of the students reported the need to be better prepared for the COBES training.
Both students and teachers confirmed COBES to be relevant to Ugandan radiography training.
马凯雷雷大学医学院是东非最古老的卫生专业培训机构。自1924年以来，它一直在培养卫生专业人员。2001年，放射照相术学士学位课程开始。经过课程审查，该大学长期以来的传统课程转变为以问题为基础的学习课程，重点是社区教育与服务（COBES）。作为COBES的一个组成部分，放射照相术、医学、护理、牙科和药学专业的学生被派往社区卫生设施，在那里他们需要参与社区服务和其他初级医疗保健活动。本研究旨在获取放射照相术教师和学生对这种基于社区的培训对放射照相术培训的重要性和相关性的看法。
横断面描述性研究。
学生和教师（占91.4%）均肯定社区培训对放射照相术培训具有重要意义且相关。在COBES期间，共有71.4%的学生参与了X光服务，39.2%的学生参与了超声服务；68.6%的学生表示需要为COBES培训做好更充分的准备。
学生和教师均确认COBES与乌干达的放射照相术培训相关。
