IMCI Complementary Course Development

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IMCI Complementary CourseDevelopment
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World Education

• Boston-based NGO
• 50 years of experience
• Adult education and training programs
• 38 countries, including the United States
• Programs tailored for the situation

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IMCI Complementary Course

• Designed for facilities-based health
  practitioners with lower levels of literacy
• sixth grade education
• two years of medical training
• little access to reading materials
• little or no in-service training
• usually working in isolated areas

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Field-Based Course DevelopmentProcess

• Helps stakeholders understand that training is
  one part of a continuum
• Selecting the correct participants
• Designing the appropriate curriculum and program
  design
• Post-testing, follow-up and supervision

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Field-Based Course Development Process

• Observed on-going training program to find out
• Training techniques in use
• Facilitators skills and attitudes
• Participants skills and knowledge
• Selection criteria for Complementary Course

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Field-Based Course Development Process

• Facility-Level Site Audits
• Purpose is to find out
• Literacy levels
• Current practice
• Systems in place
• supervision
• drugs
• equipment
• reference materials

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Field-Based Course Development Process

• Results of Audits
• Facilitators changed attitudes
• Reality-based ideas about learning needs and
  skills of participants
• Developed selection criteria
• Basic formal education
• Limited access to reading reference materials
• No (or limited) professional development
  opportunities
• Posted in isolated communities

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Field-Based Course Development Process

• Curriculum Development Seminar
• Based completely on learning objectives,
  algorithms and other IMCI materials
• Designed a more participatory, less reading-based
  course

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Course Design

• Uses non-formal techniques to
• find out what participants know and do
• build on their skills
• practice new skills
• evaluate their learning
• Bases the learning as close to the workplace as
  possible

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Course Design

• Evaluates learning
• Clinical practice
• Classroom learning
• Helps facilitators assess learning
• Helps participants self-assess
• Makes direct applications to workplaces

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Field-Based Course Development Process

• Drafted Facilitator Guides
• Conducted Technical Review
• BASICS and WHO
• Conducted Training of Trainers
• Implemented Field Test

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Cautionary Tale

• One size doesnt fit all
• Proper equipment, drugs and supervision must be
  in place, or participants wont be able to apply
  IMCI skills
• Course needs to be adapted to country-specific
  IMCI protocol
• Course design must respond to the needs of the
  participants

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Capacity Building

• Builds capacity of stakeholders
• Site Audits
• Curriculum Development Seminars
• Training of Trainers
• Supervision and Follow-up
• All carried out with deliberate skills building
  as a goal

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