DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sjahss.2025.v13i12.004

Pages: 551-559

This article examines the various regulations that guide the in-service training of the state’s health personnel in Cameroon and investigates how this influences work performance. Continuous training programs in the different health institutions have a great influence on the work performance in the country’s health sector. Using the scientific and human capital theory, this work sets out to establish whether the regulations that guide the in-service trainings of the health personnel of the state positively or negatively affects work performance. To realize this work, data was primarily gotten through the qualitative research method. For our findings, 35 respondents were selected and interviewed or sampled through interviews and questionnaires. The results of our findings established that the principal aim behind the adoption of the regulations that guide the in-service training of the state’s health personnel was to facilitate the acquisition of skills and better professional attitudes during the training programs in the different academic institutions that could significantly contribute to an improvement in work performance. However, the poor mastery and application of in-service training regulations on the other hand results in the wastage of time and resources and creates loopholes that are exploited by health personnel to promote personnel interests, with adverse effects on work performance.