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American Heart Association (BLS) Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers

This course focuses on healthcare providers who respond to cardiovascular and respiratory emergencies

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Biostatistics 1

To train candidates to understand the principles of Biostatistics.

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Clinical Guidelines

The aim of this module is to enable participants to understand the different guideline approaches (de novo development and alternative methods), implementation, monitoring and evaluation of evidence based clinical practice guidelines.

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Clinical Research Protocol Writing

To enable Registrars (MMed candidates), Medical Officers and other novice clinician researchers who are ready to begin or are in the process of drafting a quantitative or qualitative clinical research protocol, to: 1. Learn the basic concepts of research methodology (quantitative and/or qualitative);2. Learn about the components required in a research protocol, suitable for divisional/departmental…

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Delivering Healthcare in Rural Communities

This short course will review the unique features of delivering healthcare in rural communities, including discussion of the concept of rurality and the geographic, social, cultural and economic context of rural people. It follows the Community- Oriented Primary Care (COPC) approach an approach to primary healthcare that has its origins in a rural African context.…

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Diagnosis and Screening: An introductory course

This course aims to teach the basic principles behind diagnostic and screening research. It covers diagnostic study designs, sources of bias, analysis and interpretation of diagnostic accuracy data as well as systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies. It also covers the key principles of screening and the evaluation of screening tests and screening programs.

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Emergency point-of-care ultrasound

To provide foundational theoretical knowledge and psychomotor skills for emergency point-of-care ultrasound users

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Ethical, legal and social implications of biobanking

The overall aim of the course is to provide a basic overview of the ethical, legal and social implications of biobanking practice through an engagement with the relevant concepts and debates in each identified area. The overall aim of the course is to provide a basic overview of the ethical, legal and social implications of…

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Fundamentals of Epidemiology

To train candidates to understand the methods and applications of epidemiology.

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Global Masterclass in Qualitative Evidence Synthesis

This short course aims to provide academic staff, students, researchers, reviewers and editors with the understanding of the principles to conduct and interpret qualitative systematic reviews.

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Good Clinical Practice – Refresher

To update experienced clinical investigators on new developments relating to the conduct and regulation of clinical trials.To refresh existing knowledge relating to clnical trial research.

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Health Policy Analysis

To provide a range of tools to apply Health Policy Analysis to Health Systems Strengthening. To understand the social determinants of health and health as a determinant of other social policies. To deepen the understanding of policy analysis models and their application.

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Ionising radiation in the workplace for medical practitioners

Overall aim: To provide candidates (occupational medical practitioners) with the necessary competency (knowledge and skills) for managing the occupational health aspects of ionising radiation as occupational hazard. The course also has the objective of ensuring fulfillment of the requirements for registration with the National Nuclear Regulator as an Appointed Medical Practitioner as required in legislation.

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Primer in Systematic Reviews

Overall aim is for participants to find, appraise, interpret and consider the use of network meta-analysis systematic reviews of effects

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Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)

The overall aim of the short course is to provide a basic overview to academic staff, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate students through an engagement with relevant concepts of responsible conduct of research in each identified area.

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Systematic Review of Economic Evaluation

To train candidates to understand the principles and application of Economic evaluation in health care.

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