Strengthening Undergraduate Human Nutrition and Dietetics Training in Uganda: The Need to Adopt Competency-Based Education
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Date
2019
Authors
Kikomeko, Peterson Kato
Ochola, Sophie
Ogada, Irene
Kaaya, Archileo N.
Nakitto, Peace
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International Knowledge Sharing Platform
Abstract
Competency-based education (CBE) is advocated for, to improve the competence of professionals for health
systems performance in the 21st century. Limited evidence of efforts in advancing CBE in the training of Human
Nutrition/Human Nutrition and Dietetics (HN/HND) at the undergraduate level exists in Uganda. Failing to
develop and validate competencies required of HN/HND professionals to perform in Uganda’s health systems may
limit advances towards CBE of HN/HND in the country, lead to the adoption of inappropriate competencies, and
cause inefficient investments in HN/HND professional education. The purpose of this review, therefore, is to create
awareness for the need to: (1) identify competencies required of HN/HND professionals to competently perform
in Uganda’s health systems and (2) develop and validate a competency-based undergraduate HN/HND education
model suitable for use in Uganda.
Description
A research article published in Journal of Education and Practice
Keywords
Competence, Competency, Competency-based Education, Health professionals, Human Nutrition and Dietetics Competencies, Validation
Citation
Journal of Education and Practice. Vol.10, No.21, 2019