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Impact of armed conflict on health professionals' education and training in Syria: a systematic review.
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- Disruption of Undergraduate Clinical Training in Postconflict Syria: Insights from Clinical Practice and Implications for Future Health Workforce Readiness.Avicenna journal of medicine · 2026Article
- Local control, remote expertise: governing therapeutic telemedicine in wartime.Nature medicine · 2026Article
- Clinical training under movement restriction: checkpoint burden, burnout, and intentions to train abroad among medical students in Palestine.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- The impact of the Sudan conflict on urological surgical training: a national study of challenges, adaptations, and trainee-led pathways to resilience.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Impact of remote learning on posture and musculoskeletal health among Sudanese medical students during the 2023-2024 conflict: a cross-sectional study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- First aid training in conflict zones: An interventional training study and a post-training knowledge assessment.SAGE open medicine · 2026Article
- Postgraduate medical education in fragile conflict-affected settings: A scoping review.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Challenges in anatomy education among Sudanese medical students during the 2023 armed conflict: a cross-sectional survey.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Medical education and health professional training during the Syrian conflict: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Reforming Graduate Medical Education in Syria: A Strategic Framework for Post-Conflict Recovery.Avicenna journal of medicine · 2025Article
- Improvised chest tube drainage: A practical approach to thoracic emergencies in humanitarian crises.Surgery in practice and science · 2025Article
- How a sudden war affected our medical school: reflections and lessons learned on adaptability and equity while preserving academic standards.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Adaptive strategies of a medical school during Sudan's armed conflict.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Rapid assessment of pre-service midwifery education in conflict settings: findings from a cross-sectional study in Nigeria and Somalia.Human resources for health · 2025Article
- International Partnerships in Health Education: Adapting E-Learning Models for Conflict-Affected Myanmar.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Beyond health: A machine learning analysis of structural barriers to school attainment in Somalia.PloS one · 2025Article
- Medical education challenges during the war crisis in Sudan: a cross-sectional study, 2023-2024.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- War and peace in public health education and training: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Translation, cultural adaptation and linguistic validation of the postgraduate hospital educational environment measure into Arabic.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- War and education: the attacks on medical schools amidst ongoing armed conflict, Sudan 2023.Conflict and health · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo provide an overview of the holistic impact of the armed conflict on medical education and health professionals' training (MEHPT) in Syria.
settingSyria is a country which underwent an armed conflict for 10 years and suffered from the weaponisation of health.
methodsA mixed-methods systematic review including quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods and textual literature between 2011 and 2021 including papers on the Syrian MEHPT undergraduate and postgraduate education and training personnel (including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals). The electronic search was conducted in October 2018 in Embase, Global Health, Medline, PsycINFO, Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL and grey literature. And an update to the search was conducted in August 2021 in PubMed, Google Scholar and Trip database. OUTCOMES: The impact of conflict on the MEHPT system, personnel, experiences, challenges and channels of support.
resultsOf the 5710 citations screened, 70 met the inclusion criteria (34 quantitative, 3 qualitative, 1 mixed-method, and 32 reports and opinion papers). The two major cross-cutting themes were attacks on MEHPT and innovations (present in 41% and 44% of the papers, respectively), followed by challenges facing the MEHPT sector and attitudes and knowledge of trainees and students, and lastly health system and policy issues, and narrating experiences.
conclusionConflict in Syria has politicised all aspects of MEHPT. Influenced by political control, the MEHPT system has been divided into two distinguished geopolitical contexts; government-controlled areas (GCAs) and non-GCAs (NGCAs), each having its characteristics and level of war impact. International and regional academic institutes collaboration and coordination efforts are needed to formulate educational platforms using innovative approaches (such as online/blended/store-and-forward/peer-training/online tutoring) to strengthen and build the capacity of the health workforce in conflict-affected areas.
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