Save the Children provides training on medical teaching system for top obstetricians and paediatricians

Thursday 23 January 2014

Save the Children provided a week-long training on medical teaching system - SCORPIO- for 15 top obstetricians and paediatricians from Yen Bai, Dac Lac and Ca Mau provinces.

The SCORPIO (Structured, Clinical, Objective Referenced, Problem-based, Integrated and Organized) is a model of on-the-job training that involves in a series of lecture-demonstrations wherein the trainers and trainees can interact the same time. The method is not yet to be used in the medical schools in Vietnam.

The 15 doctors are expected to pass on their acquirement from the training to other 300 doctors, nurses and midwives at districts and communal levels in attempts to improve the maternal and newborn care services in poor areas of the three provinces.

“This is a useful methodology that would help us, and other health workers from remote and rural areas have an opportunity to improve our skill in providing clinical treatments for mothers and infants,” said the Director of Ca Mau Reproductive Centre, N.N Hoang.

The week-long training is a part of Save the Children maternal and newborn care programme which focused on:

  • Increasing access to and availability of key services for maternal and newborn health at all levels
  • Increasing in quality of essential and emergency maternal and newborn care at all levels of health services
  • Improving knowledge, skills and home care practices for new mothers
  • Strengthening management, social support, and enabling environment for maternal and newborn survival

The programme titled “Household to Hospital Continuum of Maternal and Newborn Care in Vietnam” started in Khanh Hoa and Da Nang in 2008. After three years of implementation, the programme proved a great impact. The mother death rate and newborn death rate were reduced remarkably in the two provinces.  Between 2011 and 2012, Save the Children expanded the programme in Thai Nguyen, Thua Thien Hue and Vinh Long provinces.

Currently, the programme is scaling up nation-wide.