The IMCI pre-service education package has been developed by the Regional Office in close collaboration with medical schools in the Region to assist teaching institutions in introducing, implementing and assessing undergraduate teaching programmes that include the IMCI approach. Over 50 medical schools have to date introduced the Integrated Management of Child Health (IMCI) approach into their teaching programmes. 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.