Medical education and Humanitarian emergencies: Necessity to strengthen

Abstract

Humanitarian emergencies such as man-made conflicts tend to influence and impact every aspect of human lives, including medical education. Humanitarian emergencies accounts for far-reaching consequences in the domain of medical education, including disruption of educational infrastructure (viz. medical school and training facilities) that significantly hampers the delivery of medical education. There is an immense need to plan and prepare for these humanitarian emergencies and thereby implement appropriate measures to ensure that delivery of medical education is not disturbed. To conclude, humanitarian emergencies have become quite common in today's era. However, as the impact of these emergencies on medical education is multi-fold, there is an immense need to address the problem. In-fact, the need of the hour is to plan and implement a multi-pronged approach to ensure that despite the challenges posed by humanitarian emergencies, we are well-equipped to ensure medical education delivery.

Keywords

• curriculum
• humanitarian emergencies
• medical education