Student-Run Multidisciplinary Allied Health Practice Centre

What do we do?

Provide practical training opportunities for current and prospective health expertise for in the areas of multidisciplinary collaboration, Evidence-based Practice, Client-centeredness and Innovation and Entrepreneurship

International good practices for modernizing the teaching/learning pedagogical aspects 

Contemporary medical training for the students and health-care professionals i.e. the ICF and GAS approaches trainings of health service delivery 

Provide allied health services to the clients/communities 

Contemporary medical practice space/platform for the students 

Stimulate the generation of innovative ideas and researches and support their implementation as start-ups or new practices within the existing organisations. 

 

About us

The SMAHPC Centre enables students, practitioners, teachers, as well as policy makers, researchers and investors, to modernize the health-care system in Kosovo, by producing well-trained Health-care professionals on the contemporary competences for continuous professional development, and an environment that supports innovative ideas.

The SMAHPC Project aims to address the great need for qualified health/rehabilitation in Kosovo. The relatively poor level of quality and efficiency of health services in general in Kosovo represents an issue that is insufficiently and inadequately addressed by the current national programs, strategies and macro-policies.

SMAHPC enhances the practice-oriented education in rehabilitation/health sciences through lifelong-learning Life-long Learning, in line with the Bologna process and collaboration with rehabilitation/health providers, ministries and industry.

To establish and functionalize this format of the Practice Centre, SMAHPC aims to:

1. Develop 1 CPD and Handbook on teaching competence: teaching competence of PA HEIs teachers and clinical supervisors by implementing a top-up LLL training
2. Investigate and share best practice of multidisciplinary collaboration, client-based, innovation and entrepreneurship, and evidence-informed practice
3. Develop 9 CPD courses: Competence in multidisciplinary collaboration, client-based, innovation and entrepreneurship, and evidence-informed practice 
4. Establish the triangle (Advisory industry board) in health sciences comprising of representative from industry, academia and government in Kosovo
5. To establish an EU and Kosovo network for collaboration and mobility of staff for developing LLL in rehabilitation/health services supporting each other in developing and implementation of the LLL and CPD courses.

SMAHPC SUPPORTING THE STUDENTS’ INNOVATIVE IDEAS

Businesses and Start-ups benefit the following by supporting the services of the SMAHPC Project:

• Co-development and co-delivery of professional and academic programs
• Research and testing services provided by certified experts
• Networking with international experts/institutions and networks
• Early and exclusive access to innovative and potentially profitable business ideas
• Sharing ideas and good practices
• Co-application of EU grants for joint initiatives (all the HEIs members have been successful on developing and are managing EUR multimillion portfolio of EU funded projects
• Giving back to the society 

How doea SMAHPC support the students to commercialize or develop their innovative ideas?

SMAHPC has created a structured and standardized system to support the students and their innovative ideas. Different stakeholders in this process, like “Innovation Officer”, “Interdisciplinary Evaluation Team”, “the selected supervisors” and the Joint Venture Group, follow and support the students through 4 phases of development and evaluation. By the end of the process, the student will possess a well conducted business plan and other relevant documents. Additionally, the students will be presented the opportunity of being financially supported by the Joint Venture Group in a Bi-annual Innovation Event.