The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) of Ethiopia has launched a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to continually develop the competency of health professionals through standardized in-service training. The primary goal of the CPD program is ensuring quality health service by competent health professionals and linking the continuing education unit (CEU) with license renewal requirements. Arba Minch University (AMU), College of medicine and health science is a registered CPD provider in Ethiopia. Training has been given to health care providers based on the need for the healthcare system which is assessed by top-down and bottom-up approaches. CMHS has a dedicated staff and panel of experts in various disciplines who are engaged in various capacity building, needs assessment, monitoring, and evaluation activities.

AMU CMHS Accredited

  • CPD Providers
  • CPD Courses 

Vision and mission

Vision: By the end of 2030, the CPD Center of the CMHS aspires to be one of the top five CPD Center in Ethiopia in providing CPD activities.

Mission: To enhance the provision of efficient and evidence-based quality healthcare services to society through accrediting CPD centers and providing need-based, standardized, and institutionalized in-service training programs focusing on prevention, care and treatment training in Ethiopia 

Core values:

  • Customer-first
  • Quality training
  • Teamwork
  • Partnership
  • Capacity building
  • Equity and fairness
  • Good governance
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Responsibility and accountability
  • Organizational benefit