International Asthma Diploma Module

International Primary Care Respiratory Group – Bangladesh (IPCRG-BD) has been working to reduce the burden of  Asthma  (about 10 million people in Bangladesh) and its colossal impact on individual, family, social and national levels through an educational program called “Better Breathing Bangladesh” with the support of International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG), Education for Health (EfH), UK .The main goal  is to promote asthma and respiratory care through building capacity of the health care professionals such as physicians, nurses, medical assistants, pharmacists and others working in rural and urban communities in Bangladesh. In 2012,  realizing the limitation of the program which  is reaching mainly to the physicians at tertiary and secondary levels, IPCRG-BD and EfH, UK joined hands with International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) to address this problem.  Accordingly, a joint strategy and platform has been created by the  Technical Training Unit (TTU) at icddr,b ,  IPCRG-BD and EfH, UK to reach with the International Asthma Diploma Module to a greater and diversified target groups who are engaged in providing primary health care to the urban and rural communities in Bangladesh. It is a 6-month long distant learning educational program which provides in-depth information about the disease, its diagnosis, treatment and management. It  includes initial 3 days and final one day face to face teaching by  overseas (UK) faculties along with EfH trained local mentors. Both faculties and local mentors provide day-long teaching and hands on training including case-analysis of asthma and spirometry.

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http://training.icddrb.org/siteinfo/circularDetail?1=1&view=79