A
Meeting of experts on an IMCI pre-service education
package was then held in 2008, to review a set of
materials developed by the Regional Office to guide the
introduction of IMCI into the teaching programmes of
medical schools.
An
Intercountry Training on the Evaluation of IMCI
Pre-service Education was carried out in Mansoura,
Egypt, from 5 to 7 June 2009, to start building capacity
in the region for evaluation of teaching programmes of
paediatric departments in which IMCI had been
introduced, based on the Guide developed by the Regional
Office. The training was followed by the
Evaluation of IMCI Pre-service Education in Mansoura
University, Mansoura, Egypt, from 8 to 11 June 2009.
This was the 3rd evaluation, after those
conducted in Alexandria University and Khartoum
University in 2006.
Based on the experience in the
Region, the Regional Office then published the
IMCI pre-service education package in 2010. The
package, developed in close collaboration with medical
schools, is meant to assist teaching institutions
in introducing, implementing and assessing undergraduate
teaching programmes that include the IMCI approach. The
package comprises the following publications:
1.
IMCI pre-service education: orientation and planning
workshop: facilitator guide is designed to assist in
the conduct of in-depth participatory workshops for
teaching institutions to develop plans to introduce IMCI
into the teaching programmes. The guide, tested in an
intercountry workshop in July 2009, includes detailed
guidelines, presentations and tools to support this
task.
2.
IMCI pre-service education: teaching sessions, with
lesson plans to support planning and conduct of IMCI-related
teaching sessions within the paediatric and community
medicine teaching programmes, describes the student
learning objectives, content and procedures of each
session. The content was thoroughly reviewed by an
expert group in 2008.
3.
IMCI pre-service education: guide to evaluation is a
comprehensive tool to assess whether IMCI pre-service
education as a public health intervention improves
students’ competencies in managing main childhood health
problems in outpatient settings. Extensively reviewed
through expert consultations and tested in four medical
schools, this guide comes with a
user guide to data entry and analysis and a CD with
the relevant
e-forms
and programme files.
4.
IMCI pre-service education: question bank is a
resource library of multiple-choice questions and case
scenarios suitable for evaluations of IMCI pre-service
education and student formative and summative
assessments. It has already been used to develop student
knowledge tests for evaluations in two medical schools,
in 2009.
5. IMCI pre-service education: e-lectures on CD
provides standard technical content as a resource to
support IMCI-related teaching.
6. IMCI pre-service education: e-learning material
for students on DVD is designed to support students’
learning at their own pace through an electronic,
interactive medium.
Additional information on individual activities:
Evaluation of IMCI Pre-service Education in Mansoura
University
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Paediatrics
8 – 11 June 2009
Intercountry Training on the Evaluation of IMCI
Pre-service Education
Mansoura,
Egypt
5 – 7 June 2009
