Integrating Conflict Medicine Education into Curricula
ABOUT
The Conflict Medicine Education initiative advances the integration of conflict-related training into healthcare education through stakeholder dialogue, training programs, and case-based learning. It addresses critical gaps in current health professional training by equipping healthcare practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and contextual understanding needed to deliver effective care in conflict and fragile settings.
Bringing together academic institutions, healthcare practitioners, and humanitarian actors, the initiative promotes a structured and multidisciplinary approach to preparing the health workforce for the clinical, ethical, and operational challenges of conflict-related healthcare delivery.
PROJECTS
Intersectoral Dialogues
Two regional dialogues convening healthcare practitioners, academics, and humanitarian actors to examine conflict-related training integration.
Conflict Medicine Fellowship
A competency-based training fellowship program designed to prepare surgeons and emergency physicians for delivering care in conflict settings.
Conflict Clinical Case Series
Case-based learning modules developed from real clinical experiences to support training healthcare students in conflict-related healthcare delivery.
FEATURED EVENTS
January 2025
Integrating Conflict Medicine in Medical Education: A Necessity and a Challenge for Conflict-Affected SettingsA high-level dialogue convening medical, academic, and humanitarian stakeholders to examine gaps in current medical training and explore the need for integrating conflict medicine into curricula, with a focus on competency-based learning for conflict settings.
Watch Recording
February 2025
Reshaping Formal Healthcare Education: Insights and Roadmap for AdoptionA multidisciplinary dialogue expanding the first event to include nursing, pharmacy, mental health, and allied health, focusing on practical strategies for embedding conflict-responsive training and strengthening healthcare education across disciplines.
Watch Recording
