Training

Training

Another condition to the perpetuation of the programs: medical staff training.

AMI proposes adapted sessions to supplement studies of university level or to enable a teacher to give advices and simple health care to the members of his/her community. The teaching method, the didactic material and the used language are as many elements which answer a particular profile of student. With the concern of respecting the customs and local habits, when this does not harm the health nor the dignity of the patients.

The «medics»: the basic in 18 months

AMI always regarded training as a privileged mean of humanitarian intervention. In 1985, it systematizes the approach in Central Asia. Each year, many students arrive from the most moved back areas of Afghanistan to receive a 18 months training. At the end of the training, the "medics" can deal with 90% of the most frequently met diseases in their area. With their diploma, the students go back to their village, they carry drugs, medication and the material necessary to open a small dispensary. Today, the training of health agents continues in other forms on a great part of the Afghan territory.

The "medics" experiment puts forward the importance to create a remotely continuing training magazine. The magazine makes it possible to keep contact with the trained staff and to ensure the maintenance level of their knowledge. Magazines of this type were create on our Afghan, Burmese and Kampuchean missions.