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Training Workshop for Physicians, Nurses, and Midwives - Latin America/Caribbean Region

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USAID's Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) Program organised a Regional Experts Advanced Training Skills and Change Leadership workshop from October 28 to November 4, 2002 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Sixteen doctors, nurses, and nurse-midwives from 8 countries (Bolivia, Chile, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay) attended the workshop, which was designed to support clinicians by updating their evidence-based maternal and newborn knowledge and skills, enhancing their training skills, and equipping them to be advocates for change.
Communication Strategies

This workshop focused on group process skills, problem solving, and clinical decision-making skills, as well as on the skills needed to train new trainers. Other topics included change leadership (to prepare the participants for their role as change agents), transfer of learning, performance improvement, and preservice education.

At the beginning of the workshop, participants shared their experiences with conducting training in their own or other countries. They also presented their efforts to implement their action plans aimed at improving MNH clinical practices at their worksites.

Development Issues

Women, Children, Health.

Key Points

The MNH Program was designed help ensure that women and newborns survive pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. As part of an effort to develop a sustainable approach to meeting regional needs for skilled providers, the MNH Program started the Regional Expert Development Initiative (REDI) in 2001. REDI establishes core groups of maternal and neonatal healthcare experts and trainers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The workshop described here is part of this REDI initiative.

The Program "develops" experts - like those who attended the workshop - by updating their evidence-based maternal and newborn healthcare practices, standardising their clinical skills, and enhancing their training skills. Addressing leadership skills is central to this expert development process. As part of their participation in the initiative, experts commit to an action plan to change selected maternal and newborn healthcare practices at their respective institutions.

A directory of the 16 professionals who attended the workshop, including contact information, is available (see contact information below).

Partners

The MNH Program is a complementary partnership supported by JHPIEGO Corporation, The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP), and Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH).

Sources

MNH Program Updates, November 2002, Number 34.