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Medical Records Technicians - 1 at Majuro and 1 at Ebeye
Med*cal Recoras Clarks - 3 at Majuro ana 1 at tbeye
There are training sites for some of these personne] at the University
of the South Pacific and the College of Micronesia.

Since the numbers of

personnel needed in each area are so few, it does not warrant conducting
special training schools in the Marshall Islands other than that of on-thejob training.
training

site

Each need must be
and

fulfilled

individually evaluated for the proper

with

an

appropriate

participant

manpower

training program.
SUMMARY OF HEALTH MANPOWER RECOMMENDATIONS

Establish scheme of service ladder for upgrading personnel in medical and
nursing cadres.
Improve health manpower administrative structure and develop incentives for
recruitment of health personnel and improvement of morale.
Emphasize and support health care on the outer islands by creation of five

divisions:

1) Primary Care/Public Health, 2) Secondary Care, 3) Support

Services, 4) Planning and Evaluation, 5) Manpower Training.
Select and train one community health worker for approximately every 50-75
persons on the outer islands,

and upgrade qualified candidates to health

assistants.

Assign one medical assistant to every atoll, in each health center.
Begin the training of 10 medical assistants every year for the next three
years and 3-5 every year thereafter.

The training to be at the School of

Medicine in Suva, Fiji until the school is established at Honiara, Solomon
Islands.

Immediately select and begin the training of one or more qualified candidates
for medical officer or medical doctor training at the School of Medicine in
Suva, Fiji and continue to enroll two candidates per year for the foreseeable
future.
Select appropriate candidates and begin the training of approximately 3-5
nurses for graduate nurse training each year at the School of Nursing of the
College of Micronesia in Ponape and Saaipan.

Give consideration to providing financial assistance for the move of the
School

of Nursing of the College of Micronesia from

Saipan

to Majuro,

Marshall Islands.

10.

Request the training of practical nurses as needed through the extension

division of the College of Micronesia with the training to be provided in
Majuro.

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