- - http://healthtrainingifakara.org/ - healthtrainingifakara.org provides up to date information about the Assistant Medical Officer course, national and international short courses and more at the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health in Ifakara, Tanzania. en-us 2006 Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health Ifakara. Thursday, 27 Apr 2006 10 - -http://healthtrainingifakara.org/ rss.gif 144 33 - healthtrainingifakara.org provides up to date information about the Assistant Medical Officer course, national and international short courses and more taking place at the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health in Ifakara, Tanzania. - - http://www.healthtrainingifakara.org/AMO/test08.pdf - TTCIH will provide a refresher course for clinical officers who want to improve competence in clinical medicine and clinical officers who will sit for the AMO entrance test conducted by the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and elsewhere. Participants who have completed this course have a 67% pass rate in the AMO entrance test. Monday, 31 March 2008 11:18 - http://www.healthtrainingifakara.org/AMO/test08.pdf - Poor emergency obstetric and perinatal care takes lead of the contributing factors for the unacceptable high maternal and perinatal deaths in low income countries. This course addresses on best practice and builds competencies in management of emergency obstetric and neonatal conditions as the fundamental strategy to reduce these deaths. This short course leads to a certificate on completion. Monday, 30 March 2008 11:15 - http://www.sti.ch/en/teaching-and-training/continuing-education/parasitology-in-the-tropics.html - In December 2005 the new "Tanzania Training Centre for International Health" in Ifakara, Tanzania will be inaugurated. Besides a successful research institution (IHRDC) and renovated St. Francis Designated District Hospital with 370 beds, a well functioning institution for teaching and training will then be available again. So we decided to carry out a course at this training centre next year from June 30 - July 11 2006 entitled: Parasitology in the Tropics. The aim of the course is to learn or refresh knowledge of diagnostic parasitology relevant for the diagnosis of imported parasitic infections in Europe. The varied programme contains six days of work in the laboratory, field surveys and an insight into the everyday life of working in a medical profession in Tanzania. Of course also some typical african experiences will not be missing, be it on a cruise on the Kilombero river in a dugout canoe or an overnight stay in Mikumi Nationalpark, where you get to know the representatives of the african fauna in their natural environment. The course is hold by experienced parasitologists from Switzerland in collaboration with our partners in Ifakara. It is custom-made to laboratory personel, but also other interested specialists are wellcome. The course is taught in German but includes some English lectures. The number of participants is limited to 25 persons. Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:23 - http://healthtrainingifakara.org/CORC/0108.pdf - TTCIH will provide a refresher course for clinical officers who want to improve competence in clinical medicine and clinical officers who will sit for the AMO entrance test conducted by the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and elsewhere. This course has a 67% successful pass rate for the AMO entrance test. The course will start January 2008. Tuesday, 04 Sep 2007 15:09 - http://healthtrainingifakara.org/Malaria.Course2007.html - The Malaria course is aimed at strengthening competences of actors involved in the fight against malaria, at strengthening their ability to conduct control programmes, and at strengthening their capacity to learn by themselves using new communication technologies. Participants are involved in an active learning-teaching exercise. They are supported by specialized tutors. The learning process is based on self-learning (e-learning), group discussions and mutual exchange between the participants themselves and experts. Tuesday, 10 July 2007 11:38 - http://healthtrainingifakara.org/CO.Refresher.Course/May2007.doc - TTCIH will provide a refresher course for clinical officers who want to improve competence in clinical medicine and clinical officers who will sit for the AMO entrance examination conducted by the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and elsewhere. The course will start May 2007. Thursday, 15 Feb 2007 14:15 - http://healthtrainingifakara.org/amos.html - Our mission is to create and sustain a place of high standards in health sciences that is capable of providing dynamic and innovative quality to ultimately improve the health of every Tanzanian. Friday, 28 Apr 2006 10:32 - http://www.sti.ch/en/tut/advanced-studies-in-internathealth/rational-medicine-management.html - Medicines are an essential and cost-effective tool of health care and an important element of health systems. Yet today, for millions of people worldwide essential medicines remain unavailable and unaffordable. Diseases of poverty including HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis tragically claim innumerable lives in low income countries. Millions of adults and children die each year from treatable and preventable diseases. It is about getting evidence-based and effective control interventions such as medicines to the people who need them, whether by reducing their costs, promoting research and development, improving their distribution, increasing their efficacy and acceptability, or slowing down the development of antimicrobial resistance. Rational medicine policy and management is one approach to tackle these problems and is critically important in view of constrained health budgets and to achieve efficiency, equity and quality of health care in pluralistic health systems. This two weeks course will be conducted in a rural area of Tanzania and will be complemented with field visits and local experience to address the know-do gap and the system approach to diseases of poverty. Thursday, 27 Apr 2007 - http://www.sti.ch/en/tut/advanced-studies-in-internathealth/health-district-management.html - International and Tanzanian facilitators together with local health professionals will create a challenging educational atmosphere. The interaction between participants from the North and South will promote and enrich knowledge exchange. The course is unique in combining theoretical knowledge with the reality of a rural district and the questions and skills related to medicine access. The course objectives are to enable health professionals to understand and apply the concepts and principles of essential medicines and rational medicine policy and management with a focus on the diseases of poverty HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis, to recognise the need for a national and international medicine policy environment and to apply practical field experience for rational medicine management within different health system contexts. Planning and Program Design This intense 3-weeks course aims at introducing the basic principles of strategic program and project management. It is based on exercises that simulate real problems in planning and management as closely as possible to real life situations. In the first part the students work with concepts of priority setting, economics and planning regarding the development of health systems and put into practice principles of management that can be applied to district services, using the Health Resource Allocation Model developed by the Swiss Tropical Institute. The second part of the module is a realistic simulation of a program design process, using the logical framework approach and other tools for strategic management. Thursday, 27 Apr 2007 - http://healthtrainingifakara.org/CO.Refresher.Course/CO.Refresher.Course.2007.htm - This course is aimed at clinical officers who want to improve competence in clinical medicine and clinical officers who will sit for the AMO entrance examination conducted by the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and elsewhere. Thursday, 14 Sep 2006 - http://www.sti.ch/de/tut/advanced-studies-in-internathealth/clinical-priorities-in-tropical-countries.html - Since 1997, the STI has conducted a course in clinical tropical medicine for medical and paramedical personnel in health facilities in a rural district in Africa. The 3-weeks course in 2006 takes place in the St. Francis Designated District Hospital in Ifakara, Tanzania, and in Ilala District Hospital in Dar es Salaam. It combines new teaching methods, recent scientific knowledge, and medical practice with limited resources into a new form of education for medical professionals working at district level in developing countries. The mixture of expatriate and Tanzanian facilitators, a highly motivated hospital staff, and groups of motivated participants is excellent in creating a challenging academic and educational atmosphere. The interaction between academic staff and practitioners from the North and from the South facilitates knowledge exchange among all the people involved, which benefits not only the course participants but also the local hospital staff, who are incorporated in the teaching process. The course is unique in combining theoretical knowledge directly with the reality of a hospital in a country with severe resource constraints. Thursday, 27 Apr 2006 - http://picasaweb.google.com/ttcihi - Course and event pictures in Ifakara Thursday, 15 Sep 2006