Training of Trainers on “Guidelines on Periodic Healthcare Checkups for children Under 24 Months Old” (Continued)

From November 5 to 7, 2024, the Research and Training Center for Community Development (RTCCD) collaborated with the Viet Nam National Children’s Hospital (VNCH) to organize a 3-day-in-person training of trainers session on “Periodic Healthcare Check-ups for Children Under 24 Months Old”, under the Ministry of Health Viet Nam’s Decision No. 2246/MOH/2024.  The Department of Maternal and Child Health under the Ministry of Health (MOH) is responsible for the program.

This training course  is within the scope  of a UNICEF’s project for eight provinces: Bac Giang, Lang Son, Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Nghe An, Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa và Phu Tho. 40 participants are provincial/ doctors from provincial general hospitals, provincail Centre for Disease Control and provincial obstetrics and pediatrics hospitals.

The training course include 10 days of which health workers are requested to engage in a 7-day e-learning course “Promoting for Child Development in the First 1000 days” on the website RTCCD’s  Early Journey of Life (http://ejol.vn) and then to attend 3-day in-person training course to acquire knowledge and skills on Early Childhood Development.

The Research and Training Center for Community Development was in charge of  providing training sesions about early childhood development and Psychosocial Development Assessment for children under 24 months old.

During the training, participants actively and enthusiastically engaged in the traning sessions. They were not only provided with theoretical instructions and hands-on clinical examination practice but also practice teaching what they learned to retrain frontline healthcare workers in their local areas. The trainers from RTCCD and VNCH thoroughly instructed provincial trainers the use of child assessment checklist, family counselling card, and shared teaching experiences to help participants easier absort knowleadgeand skills and convey the knowledge and skills to frontline healthcare workers when they are back to their provinces.

At the end of the training session, the participants (potential provincial trainers) expressed satisfaction with the knowledge and skills they had gained and they will continue learning the practical exercises provided to be ready to provide training to frontline health workers in their local areas.