Nursing and Maternity Care
A programme designed to strengthen the skills and competencies of staff providing nursing or maternity care in the hospital setting
Learn moreThe MSF Academy for Healthcare helps frontline healthcare workers strengthen their skills and competencies, aiming to reinforce MSF’s capacity to deliver safe and effective people-centred care. It develops and delivers tailored work-based learning programmes for medical and paramedical staff in the health facilities MSF supports.
In the contexts where MSF works, conflict and humanitarian crises can place additional pressure on healthcare services. Access to continuing professional development opportunities is essential to support frontline healthcare workers in their roles and responsibilities. Through the MSF Academy for Healthcare, MSF aims to contribute to improving the quality of care provided to patients.
The MSF Academy for Healthcare develops and delivers comprehensive learning programmes to support the professional development of nurses, midwives, doctors, medical leaders and other healthcare staff. The programmes are competency-based, delivered in the workplace and adapted to the context, with individual clinical mentoring.
The MSF Academy for Healthcare offers seven learning initiatives: three delivered in-person in MSF projects, and four hybrid or online learning programmes with participants based in over 30 countries.
A programme designed to strengthen the skills and competencies of staff providing nursing or maternity care in the hospital setting
Learn moreA competency-based programme developed to be delivered at the workplace for healthcare workers who provide consultations in health centers
A training programme created to enhance the quality of supervision and management by ward supervisors in MSF-supported hospitals
Learn moreA Postgraduate Diploma tailor-made to strengthen the key competencies of MSF's future and junior medical coordinators
A Postgraduate Diploma aimed to significantly strengthen the clinical skills on infectious diseases of MSF medical doctors to correspond to the needs of the projects
Learn moreA two-year blended Master’s programme to strengthen the paediatric skills of generalist doctors working in MSF projects in French-speaking Africa.
Learn moreTwo programmes designed for Infection Prevention and Control supervisors and Antimicrobial Stewardship focal points in MSF hospitals
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