Egypt Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP)

Graduation Requirements

Awarding of a certificate of completion is based on satisfactory completion of a final portfolio documenting all of the resident’s deliverables. All portfolio contents must be evaluated for acceptability by the resident’s mentor/field supervisor, FETP coordinator. It is the resident’s responsibility to maintain the portfolio and ensure compliance with all requirements. The portfolio will be kept in the FETP office, and managed by the Program Assistant. FETP coordinator and site supervisors/mentors conduct a confidential exit interview with the residents a few weeks before the end of the program. During this interview, the coordinator assesses whether competencies were acquired and whether field assignments were completed with deliverables.

Graduation Requirements

• Attendance at the didactic workshops.
• Attendance at the FETP seminars, scientific days and meetings.
• Successful completion of all deliverables.
• Passing semi-final and final exams

Graduation Awards

Residents who comply with graduation criteria will receive a Certificate of Achievement.

Worldwide, approximately 95% of all FETP graduates remain in government service as public health practitioners at local, district, provincial, and central levels of the public health system. As FETP graduates are supposed to return service to the supporting government, residents are required to commit to three to five years of service with the preventive sector at the MoHP at local, district, provincial, or central level.