{"id":145,"date":"2025-06-03T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/armenia\/?p=145"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:18:38","slug":"boston-university-and-henar-launch-medical-education-program-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/armenia\/2025\/06\/03\/boston-university-and-henar-launch-medical-education-program-in-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston University and HENAR Launch Medical Education Program in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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L to r: Dr. Arman Voskerchyan (HENAR co-founder), Dr. Aram Kaligian (Director, BU-AMP), Dr. Jeff Markuns (Director, BU Master\u2019s degree in HPE program), Dr. Henry Louis (HENAR Project Manager), and Yelena Abovyan (HENAR Executive Director).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On April 22, a two-day conference on the transformation of post-graduate medical education took place in Yerevan, Armenia. The conference,\u201cAdvancing Competency-based Medical Training in Armenia through a Master’s Degree in Health Professions Education,\u201d kicked-off a program designed to promote reforms in medical residency education in Armenia.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we are announcing the launch of a very important initiative, the Master\u2019s degree in Health Professions Education,\u201d said Arman Voskerchyan, co-founder of the Health Network for Armenia (HENAR). HENAR, in conjunction with the Boston University \u2013 Armenia Medical Partnership (BU-AMP) has developed a hybrid version of Boston University\u2019s Master\u2019s degree program for residency program leaders in Armenia. The program is designed to equip Armenian physicians, clinical educators, and healthcare professional with contemporary competencies in leadership, teaching, research, and monitoring and evaluation skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are embarking on another system-changing program, one that aims to lay the foundation\u2026 to transform the entire landscape of postgraduate medical education,\u201d said Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan in her opening remarks. The program is designed to train medical residency directors to transform their departments\u2019 residency programs to be based on demonstrating clinical competency in hands-on patient care rather than on just testing of theoretical knowledge of medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cCritical to the development of an efficient and cost-effective healthcare system is the development of a systems-based medical training program,\u201d said Aram Kaligian<\/a>, MD, director of the BU-AMP. \u00a0\u201cThis two-day session has been an important step in ensuring all stakeholders have a shared understanding of program goals and success metrics.\u201d\u00a0 In attendance was Jeff Markuns<\/a>, MD, the Director of the Global Health Collaborative<\/a> at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and the Director of the Master\u2019s in HPE program. Markuns gave a presentation on how he and his colleagues have transformed primary care systems over the last twenty years in southeast Asia, most notably in Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia.<\/p>\n

\"ManyThe one-year Master\u2019s degree program will teach competency-based medical curriculum development and evaluation skills, and the participants will then run bi-weekly Training-of-Trainer (ToT) programs in their respective departments to transform their own training programs. At the end of the year, the participants will have developed a new medical curriculum, evaluation tools, and trained their respective departments in the use of such skills, rather than simply writing a master\u2019s thesis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to emphasize the importance of today\u2019s occasion,\u201d said Minister of Education Zhanna Andreasyan in her opening remarks. \u201cEnhancing the competitiveness of our universities is a key goal within the ongoing reforms in Armenia\u2019s higher education and science sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

Key partners in the program are Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU) and the Armenian National Institute of Health (ANIH), the only two institutions in Armenia accredited to run medical residency programs. YSMU Vice-Rector Garnik Avetisyan and ANIH Director Aleksander Bazarchyan also attended with many of their faculty. Speakers highlighted the program\u2019s potential as a roadmap for modernizing Armenia\u2019s postgraduate medical training system.<\/p>\n

The two-day event provided a critical platform for collaboration and professional dialogue. The first day discussions focused on national policy and the structure of competency-based medical education programs. Participants had the opportunity to identify key priorities and challenges in the field and jointly outline the next steps forward. The second day of the conference featured interactive workshops. Participants engaged in hands-on exploration of the HPE program\u2019s instructional modules through role-play, team-based activity, and practical assessment tools. The long-term goal of the program is to lay the foundation for a sustainable and innovative medical education system that meets the modern needs of training medical residents and healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n

The Master\u2019s Degree in Health Professions Education program is actively recruiting and screening candidates and is scheduled to begin at the start of the school year, in September 2025.<\/p>\n

The Boston University-Armenia Medical Partnership (<\/em>BU-AMP<\/em><\/a>) is a multi-disciplinary program to coordinate collaboration for the improvement of healthcare in Armenia between the Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine and health policy and care entities in Armenia. For more information, contact <\/em>Aram Kaligian<\/em><\/a>, Director of the BU-AMP.<\/em><\/p>\n

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