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Training health professionals in conducting maternal death reviews
Author(s) -
De Brouwere Vincent,
Zinnen Véronique,
Delvaux Thérèse,
Nana Philip Njotang,
Leke Robert
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.07.005
Subject(s) - medicine , session (web analytics) , curriculum , intervention (counseling) , training (meteorology) , medical education , maternal death , health professionals , quality (philosophy) , health care , nursing , population , pedagogy , psychology , physics , philosophy , environmental health , epistemology , world wide web , computer science , meteorology , economics , economic growth
Abstract In countries where maternal death review (MDR) sessions are proposed as an intervention to improve quality of obstetric care, training focuses on the theory behind this method. However, experience shows that health staff lack confidence to apply the theory if they have not attended a practical training session. To address this problem, a training curriculum based on the new guidelines from the FIGO Leadership in Obstetrics and Gynecology for Impact and Change (LOGIC) Initiative for preparing and conducting MDR sessions was designed and tested in Cameroon. This curriculum is competency‐based and consists primarily of practical individual or group exercises.