A postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health in a lower-middle-income country: a partnership model from Nigeria
This paper describes a postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) in Nigeria. It explains the background, curriculum development, teaching, evaluation and outcomes. By its 10th year the programme had trained 166 CAMH professionals from 14 African countries. Many of...
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| description | This paper describes a postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) in Nigeria. It explains the background, curriculum development, teaching, evaluation and outcomes. By its 10th year the programme had trained 166 CAMH professionals from 14 African countries. Many of the graduates are running clinical CAMH services in their countries, mostly pioneered by them. They are also conducting CAMH training, including as faculty on the programme, and some are in international CAMH leadership roles. Key success elements of the programme that can be replicated in other low- and middle-income countries include international partnership, adopting a train-the-trainer approach, using a curriculum that covers clinical aspects of CAMH while also developing leadership and research skills, use of free-access training resources, and access to seed funding. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6cd7c7671a9c4cfab5f6cce17b92695f2024-01-19T08:48:12ZengCambridge University PressBJPsych International2056-47402058-62642024-02-012181110.1192/bji.2023.27A postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health in a lower-middle-income country: a partnership model from NigeriaOlayinka Omigbodun0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3808-8530Cornelius Ani1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7939MPH, FWACP, MD Professor of Psychiatry and Founding Director, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Email:FRCPysch, MD, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry, Imperial College London, London, UKThis paper describes a postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) in Nigeria. It explains the background, curriculum development, teaching, evaluation and outcomes. By its 10th year the programme had trained 166 CAMH professionals from 14 African countries. Many of the graduates are running clinical CAMH services in their countries, mostly pioneered by them. They are also conducting CAMH training, including as faculty on the programme, and some are in international CAMH leadership roles. Key success elements of the programme that can be replicated in other low- and middle-income countries include international partnership, adopting a train-the-trainer approach, using a curriculum that covers clinical aspects of CAMH while also developing leadership and research skills, use of free-access training resources, and access to seed funding.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056474023000272/type/journal_articleNigerialow- and middle-income countrieschild and adolescent mental healthcurriculumpostgraduate teaching |
| spellingShingle | Olayinka Omigbodun Cornelius Ani A postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health in a lower-middle-income country: a partnership model from Nigeria BJPsych International Nigeria low- and middle-income countries child and adolescent mental health curriculum postgraduate teaching |
| title | A postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health in a lower-middle-income country: a partnership model from Nigeria |
| title_full | A postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health in a lower-middle-income country: a partnership model from Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | A postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health in a lower-middle-income country: a partnership model from Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | A postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health in a lower-middle-income country: a partnership model from Nigeria |
| title_short | A postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health in a lower-middle-income country: a partnership model from Nigeria |
| title_sort | postgraduate training programme in child and adolescent mental health in a lower middle income country a partnership model from nigeria |
| topic | Nigeria low- and middle-income countries child and adolescent mental health curriculum postgraduate teaching |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056474023000272/type/journal_article |
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