Impact of armed conflict on health professionals' education and training in Syria: a systematic review.

Objectives: To provide an overview of the holistic impact of the armed conflict on medical education and health professionals' training (MEHPT) in Syria.

Setting: Syria is a country which underwent an armed conflict for 10 years and suffered from the weaponisation of health.

Methods: A mixed-methods systematic review including quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods and textual literature between 2011 and 2021 including papers on the Syrian MEHPT undergraduate and postgraduate education and training personnel (including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals).

Medical education system (re)building in a fragile setting: Northwest Syria as a case study.

Background: Syria has witnessed more than a decade of armed conflict through which healthcare workers and facilities have not only been affected, but targeted. Amidst this targeting of healthcare workers, subsequent displacement, and 'weaponization' of healthcare, the medical education and health professional training (MEHPT) of those that remain has split into at least two distinctive contexts: government controlled, and non-government controlled. Efforts to rebuild MEHPT in light of this polarisation and fragmentation have led to a new MEHPT system in non-government controlled northwest Syria, that functions through what we describe as a 'hybrid kinetic model'.