Assessment of clinical competence of graduating medical students and associated factors in Ethiopia.

Background: Ethiopia has scaled up medical education to improve access to healthcare which presented challenges to maintaining training quality. We conducted a study to assess the clinical competence of graduating medical students and the associated factors.

Methods And Materials: A pretest assessment of a quasi-experimental study was conducted in 10 medical schools with a sample size of 240 students.

Assessment of core teaching competency of health professional educators in Ethiopia: an institution-based cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Understanding the competency of educators is key to informing faculty development, recruitment and performance monitoring. This study aimed to assess the core teaching competency of nursing, midwifery and biomedical educators, and associated factors in Ethiopia.

Design: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted in January 2020 using structured tools adapted from the WHO's nurse and midwifery educator competency frameworks.

Physicians' satisfaction with clinical laboratory services at public hospitals in Ethiopia: A national survey.

Introduction: Physician is a central figure in the client list of clinical laboratory. Monitoring physicians' satisfaction with laboratory service is an important indicator of the quality management system and required by international laboratory standards. However, there is no national data on physician satisfaction with laboratory services in Ethiopia.

Patients' satisfaction with clinical Laboratory Services in Public Hospitals in Ethiopia.

Background: Knowing customers' level of satisfaction is relevant to improve and provide quality health care services. In the clinical laboratory, monitoring customers' satisfaction is an important indicator of the quality management system and required by international laboratory standards. However, in Ethiopia, there has not been baseline data about the satisfaction level of patients' with laboratory services at the national level.

Exploring health workforce regulation practices and gaps in Ethiopia: a national cross-sectional study.

Background: Health workforce regulation plays key roles in ensuring the availability of competent health workers and improving performance of the health system. In 2010, Ethiopia established a national authority aiming to ensure competence and ethics of health professionals. Subsequently, subnational regulators were established and regulatory frameworks were developed.

Practice analysis of junior doctors in Ethiopia: implications for strengthening medical education, practice and regulation.

Background: A high performing physician workforce is critical to attain nationally set health sector goals. Ethiopia has expanded training of medical doctors. However, little is known about junior doctors' performance.

Misdiagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and associated factors in peripheral laboratories: a retrospective study, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Objective: Sputum smear microscopy reading errors are likely to result in failure to detect persons with infectious TB. This study was intended to review misdiagnosis of pulmonary TB and associated factors in peripheral laboratories.

Results: During the study period 1033 (10.

How well does pre-service education prepare midwives for practice: competence assessment of midwifery students at the point of graduation in Ethiopia.

Background: Midwifery support and care led by midwives is the most appropriate strategy to improve maternal and newborn health. The Government of Ethiopia has recently improved the availability of midwives by scaling up pre-service education. However, the extent to which graduating students acquire core competencies for safe and effective practice is not known.