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Course type:

Short Course

Director of studies email:

MyLSTM@lstmed.ac.uk

Mode of study:

Duration:

2 Weeks

Home fee:

£1,225

Overseas fee:

£1,225

3 good reasons to study

You will review the current priority diseases affecting infants and children in low-resources settings, and the evidence underlying effective interventions.

You will consider the bigger picture of global child health, and where you can best make your contribution.

You will consider how you can be the ‘go to’ person to lead improvements in care for children, and develop a practical quality improvement initiative that you can implement in your day-to-day work.

This course aims to update you in recent advances in the prevention and management of priority diseases affecting children in low resource settings and equip them to lead improvements in care. The health and well-being of most of the world’s infants and children need to be improved despite limited resources. You will review priority issues in global child health focusing on latest evidence that has informed advances in disease prevention and management. Emphasis is placed on taking a broad view of health linking community interventions through to bedside clinical management and improving health outcomes by improving the quality of health care through better use of the available human and material resources.

It is taught through a combination of presentations, seminars, tutorials, case studies of quality improvement initiatives in different settings and on-line clinical case studies benchmarked against IMCI protocols.

Course Outline

UN Sustainable Development Goals
Global Burden of Disease in infants and children
Current priorities in global child health: adolescent health, neonatal health, child development/disability
Programmatic approaches to improving child health: IMCI including ETAT; EPI
Child Rights and equity
Basic quality improvement approaches and tools applied to child health in government health service and NGO sectors
Skills required to improve care: leadership, presentation skills, quality improvement

10 Academic Credits - Assessments

Assessment is a a 2,500 word written report.

For an additional fee of £95, you can be entered for full Academic Credits for this course. The assessment is coming soon.

Please note that assessments may change at the discretion of the Directors of Study. All students will be made aware of new assessment details. The academic credits are offered to provide choice and flexibility to all our students, and students who do not wish to be entered for academic credits will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance.

Entrance Requirements

Academic requirements:

Anyone who works in the fields of international child health would find this course useful.

English language requirements:

Attending course with Academic Credit:
The course is taught in English. Students whose first language is not English must provide evidence of an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score of at least 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in all learning components, or a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of at least 88 for the Internet-based Test (iBT), with minimum scores of 21 for Listening and Writing, 22 for Reading and 23 for Speaking. Tests should be within their validity period of 2 years.

Attending course Certificate of Attendance Only:
The course is taught in English and in a postgraduate setting. Students whose first language is not English should be aware that to benefit from the course participants should have English language proficiency at the equivalent of an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score of at least 6.5.

Aims

This course aims to:

Analyse the global burden of disease and major risk factors for disease in children including inequality

Evaluate recent research that has informed changes in health practice and programmatic approaches to improving child survival in low resource settings: IMCI; EPI

Evaluate and apply basic approaches and tools used to improve the quality of health interventions

Evaluate and apply approaches to adult learning that change health worker behaviour

Lead improvements in child health through improved disease prevention and clinical management

Careers

The main focus of this course is to develop the future leaders of global child health. It is suitable for people working in paediatrics, global health, and health systems development using quality improvement.

Testimonials

This course not only gave me a sound introduction to ETAT and IMCI - both of which I know will be of useful in my future practice. But also gave me an opportunity to develop a good, applied knowledge of quality improvement, which will be useful in all aspects of my future clinical practice. I particularly like that people with experience in QI in developing settings were invited to speak. Their insight into projects, particularly those in Malawi and Sierra Leone, were interesting, useful and inspiring. (Student Feedback, January 2017)

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Start date	End date	Home fee	Overseas fee
10 January 2022	21 January 2022	£1,225	£1,225	Apply

Start date:
10 January 2022

End date:
21 January 2022

Home fee:
£1,225

Overseas fee:
£1,225

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Quality Improvement in Global Child Health

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10 Academic Credits - Assessments

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