Background information: Graduates of the course are recognized as assistant medical officers (AMO), a cadre between a three year diploma (clinical officer) and first degree holders in clinical medicine. Practically they are recognized and valued almost equally with holders of first degree clinical medicine (doctor of medicine) in Tanzania and in many other countries in Africa.
Coverage subjects: Internal medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics & gynaecology, community medicine, general surgery and basics in surgical sub-specialties including ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology and anaesthesia.
Main emphasis: Competence-based course that aims at improving the quality of knowledge and skills acquired in the previous training and build competencies in clinical management of health problems and health promotion at the district level.

Objectives: The Assistant Medical Officer should be able to:

1. Develop an understanding of how the human body functions and how it can be affected.
2. Diagnose and manage common and emergency surgical, obstetric, gynaecological, paediatric and tropical medical conditions and refer those outside his or her skills.
3. Use rationally the services of a clinical laboratory
4. Practice aseptic procedures
5. Prescribe responsibly and rationally
6. Organize and manage properly a medical, surgical, reproductive and child health wards and out patient department at district level.
7. Keep records, collect and interpret health management statistics in the district.
8. Assess the health priorities within an area by estimation from available data and by means of simple surveys.
9. Maintain supplies and equipment regularly in all peripheral units under his/her care.
10. Supervise activities on the control of major endemic/epidemic diseases.
11. Plan, manage, supervise and evaluate all programs under his/her care.

Dr. Senga Pemba
Tel: +255 (0)23 262 50 18
Email: pemba@healthtrainingifakara.org

P. O. BOX 39, Ifakara, Tanzania,
Telephone: +255 (0)23 262 5018
Fax: +255 (0)23 262 5028
Email: info@healthtrainingifakara.org
Internet: http://healthtrainingifakara.org/AMO/amos_curriculum.pdf
or http://healthtrainingifakara.org/AMO/amoprofile08.pdf

This course is aimed at clinical officers who want to improve competence in clinical medicine and clinical officers who will sit for the Assistant Medical Officer’s AMO entrance examination conducted by the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoH & SW), and elsewhere.

Objectives and Content
1. To improve competence, performance and level of curative services for clinical officers (CO) at the workplace.
2. To refresh clinical officers with current information to sit for the AMO entrance examination.
3. To provide access to information resources (health databases, journals, books etc) for CO’s.
The content will follow the MoH & SW curriculum for clinical officers.

Core Subject areas:

• Pediatrics
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Internal medicine
• Surgery
• Community medicine

Dr. Senga Pemba
Tel: +255 (0)23 262 50 18
Email: pemba@healthtrainingifakara.org

P. O. BOX 39, Ifakara, Tanzania,
Tel: +255 (0)23 262 5018
Fax: +255 (0)23 262 5028
Email: admin@healthtrainingifakara.org
Internet: Click here

Every year, about 7.5 million deaths worldwide are related to complications during pregnancy and birth (maternal deaths 0.5 million, stillbirths 4 million and early neonatal deaths 3 million). This figure is by far higher than the global estimated annual deaths due to HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria (5 million).
The course provides lead district and regional key actors with state-of-the-art knowledge and implementation skills on the most effective interventions for maternal healthcare in resource constraint settings. This course will be facilitated by top experts from Tanzania, The Netherlands and Sweden with vast experiences in the area. It will also provide a platform for operational research and other opportunities to the participants.

At the end of the course successful participants will be able to:
1. Describe and understand the current state, causes and the associated factors of maternal mortality in Tanzania and other selected countries.
2. Articulate the strategic plan of the national road map to accelerate reduction of maternal and newborn deaths in Tanzania (2006-2010): specific objectives, the operational targets to be achieved, related activities and implementation framework
3. Internalize the role of district health managers in effecting implementation of the most effective evidence-based interventions at the district level.
4. Describe the most effective evidence-based interventions and their impact on reducing maternal mortality.
5. Describe the phases of effective planning and implementation of the essential maternal healthcare interventions: logical framework for designing and implementing these interventions using locally available resources.

P. O. BOX 39, Ifakara, Tanzania,
Tel: +255 (0)23 262 5018
Fax: +255 (0)23 262 5028
Email: info@healthtrainingifakara.org
Internet: http://www.healthtrainingifakara.org/uploads/media/mmr.pdf

The high rate of maternal mortality throughout sub-Saharan Africa is due in part to a
critical shortage of skilled health care providers able to deliver life saving emergency obstetric care. In most of Africa, there are fewer than five doctors for every 100,000 people, and each year 20,000 health professionals leave their posts to pursue jobs in urban areas or outside of their own countries. The training and deployment of nonphysician clinicians (NPCs) also known as mid-level providers (MLPs), to provide Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) is one part of the solution to this crisis. Almost every country in Africa has a set of health professionals who are neither doctors nor nurses, but who provide significant clinical care even in the most remote areas. In some countries they are known as clinical officers, others call them assistant medical officers, medical licentiates, health officers or técnicos de cirurgia.
This course is aimed at developing models of good practice for comprehensive EmOC
among non-physician clinicians, and strengthening the innovative manner in which
such health professionals, including midwives and nurse/midwives, have been utilized to reduce maternal and newborn deaths in a number of countries in Africa.
Course objectives:
• Provide opportunity for shared learning experiences across countries, between tutors and practicing NPCs and between cadres of NPCs providing EmOC
• Gain knowledge and skills update on evidence-based lifesaving clinical EmOC
• Learn methodology to ensure continued learning through the use of portfolio based learning
• Provide tools for improving quality of care (including clinical EmOC practice and facility systems to support EmOC provision) through audit and use of process indicators
• Uphold the rights and dignity of patients and providers through adoption of rights based approach to delivery of EmOC.
• Develop leadership and accountability skills and promote a team approach to providing EmOC
• Provide advocacy skills for NPCs to enhance their visibility as a crucial part of the clinical team providing maternal health care.

P. O. BOX 39, Ifakara, Tanzania,
Tel: +255 (0)23 262 5018
Fax: +255 (0)23 262 5028
Email: info@healthtrainingifakara.org
Internet: http://www.healthtrainingifakara.org/uploads/media/amdd.pdf or Click here

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P. O. BOX 39, Ifakara, Tanzania,
Tel: +255 (0)23 262 5018
Fax: +255 (0)23 262 5028
Email: info@healthtrainingifakara.org
Internet: http://www.healthtrainingifakara.org/index.php?id=89 or http://www.icatt-training.org/