Introduction

Ministry of Health (MOH) has initiated FETP in Mongolia with kind support from World Health Organization. Mongolian FETP is 1 year full time training program in field epidemiology with an initial cohort of 8 trainees. Mongolian FETP includes both class work (2 months) and field work (10 months). Class work exposes trainees to basic epidemiological methods, theories, and tools. Field work with a strong emphasis on field experience in areas such as outbreak investigations and surveillance provides trainees with hands-on experience in solving actual public health problems and helps them to develop skills that will allow them to play significant roles in the public health system of our country.

Mongolian FETP has started on October 9th, 2009 beginning with 2 months didactic training. Before it’s commence there have been a lot of preparation works as well as a lot of coordination activities for training.