The four-day evaluation was carried out at the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Egypt, from 8 to 11 June, to assess whether the introduction of IMCI

in the department's teaching programme had led to competent students in managing sick children with common health problems according to the IMCI guidelines and make recommendations to further strengthen the teaching programme. This was the 3rd evaluation of a medical school in the Region—as part of IMCI pre-service education—after those carried out at the paediatric departments of the universities of Alexandria, Egypt, and Khartoum, Sudan, in 2006