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COVID-19 Training Module for all Health Workers
Accreditation Details
Valid From
1 Sep. 2020
1 Sep. 2020
Expiry Date
2 Nov. 2020
2 Nov. 2020
CPD Points
2
2
This training is open to all health care workers in Ghana, whether or not they are presently involved in the management of COVID-19 patients.
This CPD is only accessible with a voucher code that will be sent to you after you have completed an online survey. Please click below to complete the survey on a secure external website.
The African coaLition for Epidemic Research, Response, and Training (ALERRT) is a multi-disciplinary consortium which combines the strengths of 21 leading African and European partner organisations from nine African and four European countries to provide a research response to epidemics across sub-Saharan Africa.
The ALERRT in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), is undertaking a survey titled 'Perceptions and Preparedness of Healthcare Workers regarding Local Infection Prevention and Control Procedures for COVID-19' in all member countries.
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Overview
Course Description
This training module will become available to you upon completing the survey. It is made up of lecture videos and an assessment to update health care workers on COVID-19. The training is crafted to be concise and self-paced, but with an expiration date.
What you will learn
The training is aimed at increasing the knowledge of health care workers to enable them to stay safe, readily screen, isolate and treat suspected and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in their line of duty.
1. To review the knowledge of Basic information on COVID-19
2. To review current recommendations in Appropriate use of Personal Projective Equipment (PPE)
3. To review current recommendations on Testing, Imaging and Laboratory Information of COVID-19
4. To study the current recommendations on Treatment and Vaccines
Course Content
Lecture Sessions
- Introduction to CPD 5 Minutes
- Introduction to COVID-19 5 Minutes
- Signs and symptoms of COVID-19 12 Minutes
- Know your PPEs 19 Minutes
- Appropriate Personal Protective Equipment for various activities 4 Minutes
- Re-use of PPEs 17 Minutes
- Sample Taking 24 Minutes
- PCR testing vs Rapid Diagnostic Kits 23 Minutes
- COVID-19 chest X-ray appearance 23 Minutes
- Current Management Protocols 7 Minutes
- Vaccine Development 22 Minutes
- Conclusion and Summary 14 Minutes
Downloadables
- Introduction to COVID-19
- Sign and Symptoms and Severity of COVID-19
- Know your PPEs, How to wear PPEs and General Principles of Infection Prevention
- Appropraite Use of PPE and Re-use of PPE
- The re-use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Sample Taking in COVID-19
- PCR testing vs Rapid Diagnostic Test
- COVID-19 chest X-ray appearance
- Current management protocols
- Vaccine development Truths - Myths
Steps to Join Course
About Facilitators
- 1 Course on CES
Dr. John Humphrey Amuasi
BSc, MBChB, MPH, MSc, PhD
Lecturer, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, KNUST
Head, Department of Community Health, School of Medicine and Dentistry, KNUST
Leader, Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, KCCR
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, USA
PI, Health workers' Survey on COVID-19 and IPC
Dr. Amuasi lectures at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), where he is based at the Global Health Department of the School of Public Health and is head of the Department of Community Health at the School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr.
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Dr. (Mrs.) Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah
BSc (Hons.), MPhil, FWACON, FGCNM, RN, PhD
Lecturer, Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, KNUST
Co-PI, Health workers' Survey on COVID-19 and IPC
Dr. (Mrs. ) Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah is a nurse by profession and a lecture in Nursing and Midwifery at the Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. She obtained her Diploma (distinction) in Nursing in 2005.
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Dr. Yeetey Akpe Kwesi Enuameh
MD, MSc, DrPH
Senior Lecturer and Head, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, KNUST
Adjunct Lecturer, The Joanna Briggs Institute, Adelaide, Australia.
Research Fellow, Kintampo Health Research Center
Yeetey is a Senior Lecturer of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and the Head of the Department of Community Health, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
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Dr. Joseph Bonney
BSc, MBChB, MPH, MSc DM, MGSPS
Specialist Emergency Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi
ATLS, AEMS, AHLS Instructor
Research Fellow, Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, KCCR
Associate Editor, Ghana Medical Journal, African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Vice President, African Federation of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Bonney is a locally trained Emergency Medicine Specialist under the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. He holds a Master’s in Public Health, specialized in Health Service Planning and Management from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
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Dr. Kofi Boamah Mensah
PhD, MSc., PharmD, BPharm (Hons.), FGCP, MPSGH
Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, KNUST.
Research Fellow, Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
Specialist Pharmacist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi
A specialist Oncology Pharmacist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and adjunct lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) – Ghana.
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Dr. Joshua Appiah Arthur
BSc, MBChB, MSc, MGCPS
Public Health Specialist and Head, Disease Control and Surveillance, Public
Health Unit, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi
Joshua Arthur is a public health physician specialist and currently head of disease control and surveillance at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. He has served in many capacities as a public health physician including on numerous monitoring teams around the country.
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Dr. Ijeoma Chinedum Anyitey-Kokor
BSc, MBChB, MGCPS
Specialist Radiologist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi
Adjunct Assistant Lecturer, Department of Medical Imaging KNUST
Dr. Ijeoma Anyitey-Kokor is a Specialist Radiologist at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital with expertise in medical imaging. Her area of interest in musculoskeletal imaging. She is a Part-Time Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Medical Imaging at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi.
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Dr. Anthony Afum-Adjei Awuah
BSc, PhD
Lecturer, Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, KNUST
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, KCCR
A postdoctoral research fellow with the Global Health and Infectious Disease Research Group at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) and a former WHO/TDR Clinical Research and Development fellow Anthony started his career with a degree in Biochemistry and went on to do his PhD in…
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Dr Laud Anthony Wihibeturo Basing
BSc, MPhil, MBA, MSc, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR)-Bacteriology
Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Incas Diagnostics Limited; Kumasi
Laud Anthony Basing is Scientist, Engineer, Innovator and Entrepreneur. He is the CEO and Founder of Incas diagnostics, a social enterprise in Ghana, which seeks to save lives through the design and production of low-cost, easy-to-use, point-of-care diagnostic test kits designed specifically for Africa.
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Mr. Louis Adu-Amoah
BSc, MPhil
Research Fellow, Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, KCCR
Coordinator, Health workers' Survey on COVID-19 and IPC
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