National training strategy - Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Mechanisms for Strengthening
Training
� A Standing Committee should be formed at the state level comprising
Mission Director, Director(s) Health & Family Welfare, Director
State Institute of Health & Family Welfare & Member from State
Nursing Council, to address the training issues. (Order in this regard
was issued on 2nd June, 2006 by the Secretary H&FW, GOI).
� Mission Director (NRHM) to chair the Standing Committee.
� A State Training Coordinator to be nominated by the committee to
steer all NRHM trainings.
� Each training institute to be given a catchment area with specific
mandate of providing in-service training.
� States where there is no training institution should have linkages with
other states.
� Accreditation of private health facilities, Mission Hospitals, Trust
Hospitals and Public Sector Undertaking Hospitals for conducting
the training needs to be done.
� Database of guest faculty to support the in-house faculty must be
available with the State Institute of Health & Family Welfare/CTI.
� Trainers/Faculty to have adequate training and pedagogy skills.
� TOT and master trainer’s training: Faculty of state level institutions
and medical Colleges need to update their skills on a continuous
basis to be able to provide quality training.
� Training must be synchronised with provision of supplies and
development of referral linkages.
� Timely nomination of trainees for the training courses is essential to
upscale the training.
� Training load should be realistic and time frame should be fixed.
� Database of trained manpower must be available in the district/
state.
� Fund-flow should be timely.
� Timely reporting of training conducted, SOEs submission and
utilisation certificate (UC) need to be ensured.
� Skill training could be divided into Core Skills, which need to be
possessed by all personnel of each category. The training for specialised
skills is to be imparted as per institutions where trainees are posted
Accreditation of private
health facilities, Mission
Hospitals, Trust Hospitals
and Public Sector
Undertaking Hospitals for
conducting the training
needs be to done.
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