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Medical Records Technicians - 1 at Majuro and 1 at Ebey
Med‘cal Recoras Clerks - 3 at Majuro and 1 at Ebeye
There are training sites for some of these personnel] at [the University
of the South Pacific and the College of Micronesia.
Since
fhe numbers of
personnel needed in each area are so few, it does not warrant conducting
special training schools in the Marshall Islands other than tilat of on-thejob training.
training
site
Each need must be individually evaluated ffr the proper
and
fulfilled
with
an
appropriate
particigant
manpower
training program.
SUMMARY OF HEALTH MANPOWER RECOMMENDATIONS
Establish scheme of service ladder for upgrading personnel iff medical and
nursing cadres.
Improve health manpower administrative structure and develop
jncentives for
recruitment of health personnel and improvement of morale.
Emphasize and support health care on the outer islands by crdation of five
divisions: 1) Primary Care/Public Health, 2) Secondary Card, 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 candidafes to health
assistants.
Assign one medical assistant to every atoll, in each health canter.
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
Fhe School of
Medicine in Suva, Fiji until the school is established at Homiara, Solomon
Islands.
Immediately select and begin the training of one or more qualiffed candidates
for medical officer or medical doctor training at the School
qf Medicine in
Suva, Fiji and continue to enroll two candidates per year for t§e foreseeable
future.
Select appropriate candidates and begin the training of approximately 3-5
nurses for graduate nurse training each year at the School of
fursing of the
College of Micronesia in Ponape and Saaipan.
Give consideration to providing financial assistance for th@
School
move of the
of Nursing of the College of Micronesia from Saipqn to Majuro,
Marshall Islands.
10.
Request the training of practical nurses as needed through
division of the College of Micronesia with the training to
Majuro.
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