Follow-up refresher training in 2015

The Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru supported by WHO alliance for health policy and systems research in partnership with Karnataka State Health System Resource Centre and in coordination with the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Tumkur organised a one day “Follow-up refresher training ” for medical officers in Tumkur district on 9thof June 2015. The training was conducted in the Hotel Naveen Regency, Tumkur.

This is a second of it’s kind training in the district on organising and managing NCD care and on improving access to medicines at primary health center level.

Accreditation:

This training was accredited two CME(Continuing Medical Education) credit points for each participants from KMC (Karnataka Medical Council). Dr Sanath, District Tuberculosis Officer, Tumkur was the KMC observer for this training.

Organised By

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

Supported By

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

Inaugural session

Dr. Shashikala N, District Health(and Family Welfare) Officer, Tumkur, Dr.Purushottam T N, District Surveillance Officer,Tumkur, Dr.Sannath.G, District Tuberculosis Officer,Tumkur, Dr. Veerabhadraiah T.A KMC accreditation committee, Tumkur division were among the dignitaries who were present in this training. Dr N Devadasan, Director, IPH, Bangalore addressed the audience with the welcome speech and stressed how different countries including India has focused of late on importance of NCD prevention and management especially at primary care level. Dr. Shashikala (DHO) said in her speech that, prevention is always better than cure and how strategizing NCD screening and care in PHC catchment area helps to check rise of NCD burden. Dr.Purushottam (DSO) provided statistics of rising NCD socio-economic burden globally and for India and urged for requirement of life style change counselling to keep these burden under control. Dr. Veerabhadraiah spoke on importance of continued medical education and getting updates on diabetes and hypertension management at primary care.   

Participants

Dr. Prashnath NS, Faculty, Institute of Public Health(and Principal Investigator-Access to Medicines Study) facilitating a session at the training event.

Around 43 doctors that includes district programme managers and 26 PHC medical officers from three talukas of Tumkur attended this training as participants.

Sessions in the training ranged from topics like NCD burden in Tumkur (and in Karnataka), findings from ATM study in Tumkur to standard treatment guidelines for management of diabetes and hypertension at primary care. So we used both mix of public health management and clinical management of diabetes and hypertension at primary health centers. A session on challenges observed throughout the ATM intervention in the district was very interactive. Both the number of participants and the level of participation had increased this training from what it was a year ago when we conducted our first such training.