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Georgia State University
Tbilisi State University
Purpose: to establish a School of Allied Health and Human Sciences through a partnership between Georgia State University School of Nursing (GSU) and Javakhisvilli Tbilisi State University (TSU). If the health care reform movement in Georgia is to succeed it will require allied health professionals such as nutrition specialists, social workers, physical therapists etc. who are educated in a manner that will support a modern health care systemGoals
To further the partnership with TSU in adding allied health professions departments that will educate professionals that will function in a modern health care system.
To facilitate the teaching of the various allied health professions curriculum through distance learning and traditional pedagogical/adult learning techniques. Atlanta faculty will provide guidance through interactive sessions with proposed faculty for these new specialty areas using distance learning facilities already present at GSU
Background
The health and social welfare of the population is a high priority of the Georgian government and its Ministry of Health in particular. Through the AIHA Atlanta-Tbilisi partnership, nursing was one of the first health care professions to receive attention in attempting to modernize Georgia's health care system. The ministry now recognizes that it will need a cadre of health professionals with specialized education in order to bring its vision of a modern health care system to fruition. Progress has been made in the education of nurses in Georgia outside of the university setting, although a proposal to build on the successes of the AIHA partnership is in another section of this document. A model, such as the one used in readying faculty at Tbilisi State University to begin a School of Nursing, will also be used with a School of Allied Health and Human Sciences. Indeed, the two schools will complement one another and will be able to have some overlap in faculty. The Allied Health and Human Sciences professions of Nutrition and Dietetics, Physical Therapy, Cardiopulmonary Care Sciences, and Social Work do not now exist in Georgia. Preliminary visits have been made to TSU on two separate occasions from the departments of social work and nutrition to discuss starting these programs. Additionally, Madame Shevardnadze is vitally interested in the profession of social work due to involvement in social activism in the country. She is particularly involved with orphaned children and internally displaced persons from war torn areas of the country through her organization "Women for Peace and Life." The Georgia State faculty visited with Madame Shevardnadze on their last visit to Tbilisi.
At this point in time in Georgia there are many health care professionals that do not have jobs. Many of the health care professional could be retrained in the Allied Health and Human Science professions and become productive workers in Georgia's emerging health care system.
Milestones
Recognition of Allied Health and Human Science Fields as legitimate areas of practice/occupations in the Georgian Health Care System
Recruitment and training of faculty for Allied Health and Human Science areas of greatest need to the Ministry of Health and the Georgian Health Care System.
Development of School of Allied Health and Human Sciences within Tbilisi State University
Development of Curriculum
Recruitment of Students
Deliverables
Determine areas of greatest need (needs assessment) through meeting with the Minister of Health and other governmental health care officials in both urban and rural areas of the country
Recruit and train faculty for identified areas of need
Mutually establish a plan for the School of Allied Health and Human Sciences with TSU
Work with identified faculty to establish a curriculum
Establish a plan to recruit students
Budget (five years, estimated)
Needs assessment $10,000
Faculty recruitment and development $350,000
Internet support $50,000
Curriculum development $15,000
Travel costs $100,000
Equipment and other costs $50,000
Total $575,000CONTACT
Judy Wold <nurjlw@panther.gsu.edu>
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