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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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