About OIGT (Opleidingsinstituut Internationale Gezondheidszorg & Tropengeneeskunde)
Training institute for doctors specialising in global health & tropical medicine. Specifically; doctor international health care and tropical medicine. (AIGT)
OIGT works closely with NVTG (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Tropische Geneeskunde & Internationale Gezondheidszorg).
Key activities:
- Training programme coordination:
- Full residency/training AIGT-doctors
- Quality assurance & governance
- A board with representatives of NVTG and a ‘wetenschapsraad’ (scientific council) to monitor scientific and academic level of training
- Domestic & international clinical stages/internships/fellowships
- Placements in Dutch hospitals within disciplines like surgery, paediatrics, gynaecology, abroad ‘low resource setting’ (LMIC’s or conflict zones).
- Linking global health to Dutch Healthcare
- AIGT-trained doctors bring back experience and expertise to the Netherlands. Related to globalization, migration, cross-cultural healthcare and tropical diseases.
- Collaborations & partnerships
Collaborations with GHH-partners
- NVTG (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Tropische Geneeskunde en Internationale Gezondheidszorg): has a seat on the board of the foundation that runs OIGT (SOIGT), share a ‘Universal Code of Conduct’ together with KCGH.
- KCGH: founded by both NVTG and OIGT, co-produce newsletters and events.
- KIT (Royal Tropical Institute): Curriculum partner: course Public Health & health Equity
Overview of characteristics
Active in countries:
‘Asia and Africa’: according to the website, OIGT creates training opportunities in hospitals abroad, in LMIC’s and conflict areas. ‘Global Health Residencies’[LH1]
CoP (Community of Practice):
CoP1- Strengthening Health Systems
Themes and subthemes within CoP:
OIGTS core themes:
- Clinical medicine: emphasis on diagnostics, emergency management
- Public health & prevention: integrating curative and preventive medicine
- Health Care Systems: understanding structure, functioning and challenges of local, national and global health systems.
- Management: focus on leadership, quality control, HR, logistics, financial management in healthcare settings
- Intercultural aspects of care: equitable & culturally sensitive healthcare; emphasis on cross-cultural communication, understanding local health beliefs
- Research & evidence-based practice: practical research, data collection, interpretation of evidence in resource-limited contexts.
- Advocacy & global citizenship: encourages engagement with organizations & policymakers to improve healthcare access and equity.
Fitted into CoP1: (WHO derived themes):
- Service delivery / clinical medicine: AIGT doctors are trained to treat individual patients, engage in public health and prevention work.
- Health workforce / management and advocacy: developing leadership & HRM skills
- Health information systems: Research & evidence-based practice; training in data collection and analysis, monitoring
- Access to medication & technology: health care systems insights; understanding supply chain and resource allocation in limited-resource settings
- Health Financing: training includes budgeting, cost-analysis and understanding health-system financing mechanisms.
- Leadership & governance: ethical leadership, stakeholder engagement
Organization type:
Knowledge institute
Available resources:
- Knowledge & expertise: training doctors in global health & tropical medicine.
- Networks: connections with Dutch Hospitals, training hospitals abroad, global health training programmes, partner organisations (NVTG)
- Influence/agenda-setting: setting standards for AIGT (Arts Internationale Gezondheidszorg en Tropengeneeskunde) training, shaping global health education in the Netherlands
- HR leverage: enabling doctors to work in low-resource settings via Global Health Residency
- Coordination & platform capability: organizing full training programme, managing curriculum, assessments, quality assurance, partnerships abroad
Contact information OIGT
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