摘要：The International Network for Doctoral Training in Health Leadership (NETDOC) is a global, collaborative network of educational institutions that offer or intend to offer professional distance doctoral programmes in health leadership. Members are committed to sharing objectives, substance and expertise to maximize access to and the quality of doctoral health leadership education worldwide. One of the approaches by which the Network envisions achieving these goals is for member programmes to share curricula, distance learning technology and school resources. Another approach is for programmes to be coordinated such that faculty may teach across schools and students may take courses or portions of courses from schools other than those in which they are enrolled. To achieve these aims, Network members have worked together to create a framework for a common curriculum core. Challenges to creation and implementation of the curriculum core have included aligning members’ understandings of terminology, desired competencies, and preferences for the expression of shared values and ideas for the framework, as well as balancing the need for specificity with the consensus view that the curriculum must not be overly prescriptive. Administrative integration of multiple and varying institutional systems to accommodate a common curriculum is another challenge. Authors representing partner schools in the U.S., U.K. and Norway share their perspectives on Network progress, which includes inputs from eleven institutions in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Jamaica and Norway.
