Prior to the workshop the co-chairs (PYC, SM, and VP) and planning committee assisted the IOM on the development of a set of templates that outlined candidate core competencies for delivery of care by a range of providers for depression, psychosis, epilepsy, and alcohol use disorders.
This one-month rotation is based on a long-term, structured educational exchange partnership, and aims to provide trainees with supervised, hands-on experience based on a predefined curriculum covering four main competencies of healthcare delivery in resource-poor settings.
Twenty-five percent of the recorded sessions from each site will be randomly selected and evaluated by a research assistant who is blind to patient identity but not group assignment for intervention fidelity and for competency of intervention delivery by the study psychologists.
This research supports the need for a multidisciplinary team that covers a wide range of competencies for the delivery of diabetes care.
This was related to good communication and dialogue (teamwork) between HEWs and TBAs but also lack of self-confidence, skills and competencies of HEWs in conducting deliveries, which until recently they were expected to perform as part of the HEP.
In 2012, the Neuroscience Forum of the Institute of Medicine convened a meeting of key stakeholders in Kampala, Uganda, to discuss a set of candidate core competencies for the delivery of mental health and neurological care, focusing specifically on depression, psychosis, epilepsy, and alcohol use disorders.
The output of this phase was the composition of the primary care clinical team, defined by competencies, for the delivery of best-practice management of people with diabetes.
Similarly, a sample of FNP practitioners will be examined on the MI specific competency of their programme delivery using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) validated scale ratings [ 77].
Operations and distribution are also core competencies of numerous well-funded private food delivery companies, such as UberEATS, DoorDash, Instacart and Postmates.
It gives front-line health cadres (clinical officers, nurses, environmental health technologists) basic competencies in the delivery of the entire health care package at subdistrict level.
