TRADITIONAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS COURSE

Course Description:

This is a five-day training manual designed to build the capacity of medical practitioners currently giving service to the community to enable them provide standardize service to the patients

Course Goal:

To provide TMPs with necessary knowledge, skill and attitude needed to improve the safety and quality of traditional medical practice given to the society.

Course Objectives: By the end of this training course, the participant will be able to:

Describe the scope of traditional medicine
Exercise documentation of indigenous knowledge in TM
Conserve and properly use medicinal plants
Practice good medicinal plant collection, processing, and extraction techniques
Recognize safety issues in traditional medicine
Apply basic herbal formulation and quality control methods
Exercise good herbal processing and good manufacturing practice for herbal medicine

Training Method:

Interactive lectures
Group discussions
Laboratory demonstration
Site visit
Brainstorming
Self-reflection
Role play

Training Materials

Participant manual
Facilitator’s guide
Laptop computer
LCD projector
Reference
Flipcharts and markers
Note books, pens, A4 size papers
Laboratory Equipment (Mortar and pestle, Baker, measuring cylinder, Ointment slab, Paraffin)
Lab Animal
Leaflets
Plant Specimen (Live plant samples and Herbarium voucher specimens)

Participant Selection Criteria: Participants of this training should be traditional medical practitioners who have the following criteria:

Traditional medical practitioners
Registered by RHB/MOH
Members of healer’s association

Method of Evaluation:

Participant

Formative:

Pre-test,
Group exercise

Summative: (100%)

Knowledge (50%): post training test,
Activity (25%): Attendance, participation
Skill (25%): demonstration

Trainer

Trainer’s feedback evaluation

Course

Daily evaluation
Attendance
Checklist (optional)
End of course evaluation

Certification criteria:

Participants (healers) will be certified based on their participation (attendance) due to their different background and because of unequal statues (most of them are illiterate and some of them can write and read).

Trainers’ selection criteria:

Has taken TOT on ‘Advanced training of Ethiopian Traditional Medicine’
Trainer for this training should be a professional working in the area of traditional medicine or an expert on the subject matter

Course Venue:

Training centers which can accommodate trainees and trainers with adequate physical distance and adequate ventilation, Equipped Laboratory and botanical garden

Course Duration:

five days

Course Composition:

30 participants,
6 trainers

Listing ID: 8237
Course Code: 008AAUTAH0120/COU/0004/13/21
CPD Unit: 15 CEU
Course Duration: 5 Days