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Item Gov’t proposes one admission criteria for medicine students : intern doctors, nurses will do pre-internship exams.(New Vision, 2026) Kitubi, MartinThe Ugandan government has proposed major reforms to health education, including the introduction of standardized admission criteria across all universities and tertiary institutions offering medicine and nursing programmes. A key reform is the mandatory pre-internship examination for medical and nursing students, aimed at ensuring graduates meet quality standards before entering internship. The policy, known as the National Education and Training for Health Policy, also covers the full health workforce lifecycle, from recruitment and training to licensing and continuous professional development, under a single regulated framework. Health specialists have welcomed the reforms but emphasized the need for greater investment in trainer development to ensure effective implementation.Item The National Education and Training for Health Policy.(Ministry of Education and Sports, 2025) Ministry of Education and SportsThe Government of Uganda under the 1995 Constitution and the National Vision 2040, recognizes the importance of human capacity development for social economic transformation. Accordingly, the country envisions the need for highly specialized health care services that would make Uganda a regional hub for quality health care. This requires that Uganda doubles its current efforts in identification, educating, training, recruitment and retaining a robust workforce that is responsive to the needs of its population. To this end, training and developing a competent workforce for the health sector as a core function of the Ministry of Education and Sports needs to be strengthened in collaboration with Ministry of Health and other key stakeholders to achieve the desired vision. To broader serve this purpose; this policy has been developed in order to provide a general direction of training and development of health professional trainees right from their admission up to the qualification, and license to practice. This policy envisions a vibrant and transformative Education and Training for Health. The mission for this policy is to transform the Uganda health workforce by providing; quality, sustainable and equitable health education and training which is responsive to the requirements of the labour market. This policy has been designed to achieve the following objectives: to attain adequate quality and quantity of health trainees, increase enrolment of specialized health trainees, increase the quantity and quality of professional health trainers, improve the quality of health training facilities, strengthen internship, clinical rotation and practice; and to implement continuous capacity development in health sector. The implementation of this policy, will strengthen the health systems with adequate competent, responsive, motivated and productive health workforce that is equitably distributed. This will help the country to stride towards the achievement of the Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the African Union Agenda 2063 Goal 2 which focuses on well-educated citizens and skill revolution underpinned by Science, Technology and Innovation. I would like to thank all stakeholders who supported the development of the National Education and Training for Health Policy. I call upon all Ugandans to support the implementation of the policy, so that education and training for health optimally contributes to Uganda’s human capital development and socio-economic transformation.