Table 1 |
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Objectives and contents of the four training modules |
| Clinical skills: the purpose was not to update clinical competencies, but rather to strengthen decision
making capacity in remote contexts, characterised by limited equipment and referral
opportunities; the module meant also to address continuity of care and patient-centeredness
as characteristics of first line care. |
| Practice management: the module aimed at making participants acquainted with Malian laws and regulations
related to health centre functioning, and with practical skills and tools related
to financial management, human resource management, and drug management at health
centre level. |
| Public health: the module aimed at strengthening abilities to deal with community health issues
by articulating curative, preventive and promotional care, using the existing information
system for self-evaluation and local planning, establishing dialogue with the community;
a second objective was to increase participants' awareness of the role of first line
and its relations with other actors within the Malian health care system. |
| Communication skills: the objective was to improve rural doctors' communication skills by making them
reflect on their own communication style, and by increasing their awareness of the
gaps between their own views and the views of the different actors with whom they
interact: patients, communities and their representatives, staff members, local authorities,
district health authorities... Topics included health and health seeking behaviour,
patient-doctor communication, health education and teamwork |
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