Global Health Service Partnership: building health professional leadership

In recognition, countries are increasingly working to develop more specific training for clinical expertise and leadership.7,8 Shortage of faculty in many resource-poor settings limits their ability to expand education, graduate basic medical and nurse clinicians, and to produce specialists and health system leaders.9 This shortcoming has been shown by a recent commission of professional medical education, which noted that health professional education has faltered because of burgeoning health challenges, and that faculty are essential to the investment of future health dividends through training of the next generation of health professionals.10 Sustainability and self-sufficiency of a country's health systems will depend on building a pipeline of new doctors and nurses trained to continue teaching of future generations.