Date: 7/27/2008
TUMSPR News: Dr. Manenti, the WHO representative in Iran, read the regional director of WHO's message to the experts participating at the meeting on the standardized IMCI at TUMS.
Dr. Manenti, the WHO representative in Iran, read the regional director of EMRO / WHO's message for the experts participating at the meeting on the standardized integrated management of child illness and pre-service educational package. Dr. Hussein Gezairy, the regional director of EMRO / WHO in his message says that the meeting will undoubtedly play a key role by teaching institutions in developing the future competent cadres of health providers for both the public and private sectors. The meeting is held in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) on July 26th to August 1st, 2008.
Dr. Gezairy's message reads as follows:
Your Excellency. Dear colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am very pleased to address you in this "Meeting of experts on the standardized IMCI (Integrated management of child health) pre-service education package”. I would like to extend our deepest thanks and appreciation to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran for hosting this workshop. I wish also to welcome staff from WHO headquarters and country offices.
Dear Colleagues.
The outcome of the work that you will be developing in the next seven days represents another important milestone in the efforts to support the introduction of such key child public health approaches as IMCI into the teaching programmes of medical schools.
The key role played by teaching institutions in developing the future competent cadres of health providers for both the public and private sectors who are capable of providing quality child health care within the realities of the existing health systems in countries, has long been recognized in our region. In fact, IMCI pre-service education was first introduced in our region as early as in 1998, with the University of Alexandria pioneering this initiative.
Responding to the need to evaluate the experience after more than 20 medical schools in six countries embarked on this initiative, a regional committee on IMCI pre-service training evaluation was established in 2005 to develop an evaluation guide to assist ministries of health and medical schools in assessing their IMCI pre-service approach and teaching. The guide, tested in two schools in Egypt and Sudan, respectively, in 2006, was peer reviewed by a team of experts from six countries in a consultation in the same year and now represents the first key element already developed of the package on IMCI pre-service education on the components of which all of you will be working during this meeting.
This package is the first of this kind to be developed by WHO in child health globally. It has the purpose to standardize teaching methodology and instruments. Its development was strongly recommended by academic staff and child public health managers in the second Regional Consultation of IMCI pre-service education, held in Cairo in August 2006, as an indispensable tool to assist old and new schools in introducing, implementing and assessing teaching programmes including IMCI. It will include guidelines on in- depth orientation and planning, teaching sessions, monitoring and evaluation, in addition to technical references. It is envisioned that the package will be instrumental in helping to build capacity to improve pediatric and community medicine outpatient teaching. This work will support countries in their efforts to improve child health and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
I realize that seven days for this daunting task are rather few and that there will also be a need to field-test the package in different settings before its completion and finalization. I trust that your commitment and experience will contribute to the development of a high quality final product to which teaching institutions around the globe, also beyond our region, will be eager to refer.
This undertaking will serve as a good reference also for allied health professional schools which are introducing or planning to introduce IMCI into their teaching programmes.
I wish you a fruitful time and a pleasant stay in Tehran.
Picture gallery related to the meeting.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/gallery/detail.asp?galleryID=337
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=8176
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