Dr Ma now teaches other doctors in Project Hope's "train-the-trainer" programme.Off a packed hallway in another hospital in Beijing, a nurse conducts free cholesterol tests with a tool provided by Pfizer.
It is a training-the-trainers programme, directed at specialists but with the hope of reaching primary care, the intended target, as the trainees return as trainers to their home countries.
Funding for the Train-the-Trainers programme and cohort follow up was provided by the South African Medical Research Council and the National Research Foundation.
All these examples represent the adaptation of general educational strategies such as partnering between schools, seeding research leaders, investment in a train-the-trainers programme, expanding the clinical portion of the professional curriculum and engaging communities.
Facilitators of the debriefing were trained within the PAEDSIM train-the-trainer programme (www.paedsim.org).org
Based upon the NICST model of collaborative course design, local faculty were up skilled in delivery and content through a pre course Train the Trainer programme [3].
In Yorkshire and the Humber, all units participated in 2011 in a 'train the trainer' programme and developed a regional 'best practice' competency document based on the Perinatal Institute's protocols and training tools, which were administered through midwifery supervision.
In response to the high incidence of amputations and limited specialist foot care resources the Ministry of Health of supported the introduction of the International Diabetes Federation Step-by-Step foot care programme in 2009, a 'train the trainer' programme that aims to devolve foot care to polyclinic nurses and doctors [ 14].
Long term implementation is underpinned by delivery of a "train the trainer" programme, in which clinical champions from participating Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services will take on responsibility for future training of psychological wellbeing practitioners to work with the COINCIDE care model.
Specialised knowledge about these often hidden facets of diagnostic reasoning, including how to deal with them in medical education and TDs, is important for supervisors, and we recommend including these aspects as a substantial component in training-the-trainers programmes.
