Regional events
The Child and Adolescent Health and Development programme (CAH) of the Regional Office has been closely collaborating with the majority of teaching institutions in the Region which have introduced IMCI elements into their teaching programmes, the respective ministries of health and interested partners.
Regional Office CAH staff have participated jointly with ministries of health and medical schools in orientation meetings, meetings of national IMCI pre-service training task forces, planning workshops, follow-up visits and evaluations.
Staff from academic institutions already involved in IMCI pre-service training have collaborated in activities related to the same initiative in other countries.
Visits to other schools have been organized in selected cases to enhance experience sharing.
Evaluations of IMCI pre-service education at individual universities
Regional milestones
A Regional consultation on IMCI pre-service training was held in 2002 to review the experience in the Region.
A task force was set up in 2005 to develop a set of tools to evaluate the IMCI pre-service training experience in schools in the Region.
A second Regional consultation on IMCI pre-service training was held in 2006, to review progress in the region, revise the regional strategy and present the main findings of the field-tests of the IMCI pre-service training evaluation instrument.
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 evaluation guide developed by the Regional Office.
A comprehensive IMCI pre-service education package was published by the Regional office in 2010, completing work that had originally started with the evaluation guide. Developed in close collaboration with medical schools, the package is meant to assist teaching institutions in introducing, implementing and assessing undergraduate teaching programmes that include the IMCI approach.
List of regional activities
Additional information on individual regional activities or country activities supported by the Regional office and related to IMCI pre-service training is accessible clicking on the hyperlinks below. The activities are listed in reversed chronological order, starting with the ones held more recently.
Evaluation of IMCI pre-service education at Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, Pakistan
17 – 20 October 2011
Evaluation of IMCI paediatric teaching at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Gezira, Gezira, Sudan
7 – 10 December 2009
Evaluation of IMCI Pre-service Education at Mansoura University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, Mansoura, Egypt
8 – 11 June 2009
Intercountry Training on the Evaluation of IMCI Pre-service Education
Mansoura, Egypt 5 – 7 June 2009
Meeting of experts on standardized IMCI pre-service education package
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran 26 July - 1 August 2008
Regional workshop for university staff to promote good breastfeeding practices as part of the IMCI community component
Rabat, Morocco 8 - 9 July 2007
Second regional consultation on IMCI pre-service training
Cairo, Egypt, 27 - 31 August 2006
Technical committee on the IMCI pre-service evaluation tool
2005
Regional consultation on strengthening the outpatient teaching in paediatrics and community medicine in medical schools using the IMCI approach (IMCI pre-service education) in 7 "IMCI Member States" in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Cairo, Egypt, 2 - 5 September 2002
Evaluations of IMCI pre-service education at individual universities
Regional Office CAH staff have provided technical support to external evaluations of IMCI pre-service education in the following universities:
1. Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
2 to 5 July 2006
2. Khartoum University, Khartoum, Sudan
August 2006
3. Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
8 to 11 June 2009
4. Gezira University, Gezira, Sudan
7 to 10 December 2009
5. Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, Pakistan
17 to 20 October 2011
6. International University of Africa, Khartoum, Sudan
13 to 16 May 2012
