A delegation headed by Professor Abdul Hanan Baray from Kabul Medical University Afghanistan along with representatives of World Health Organisation (WHO) visited Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro (LUMHS) on Monday. The visit was a pre-service study tour with the purpose to observe the pre-service Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) which has been adopted by the LUMHS for the teaching of undergraduate students.
While addressing the introductory session, Professor Salma Shaikh, Dean Medicine LUMHS and the focal person for IMNCI Sindh expressed that teaching of IMNCI is, in general, consistent with traditional, classical pediatric teaching, well integrated throughout the curriculum and materials, interactive and makes use of a variety of teaching methods, with sessions including the full range of theoretical, practical and clinical sessions.
The outpatient department has been set up in a way conducive to teaching IMNCI, with a smooth flow of patients. IMNCI-related items have been included in student examinations, with 30 percent of total marks assigned to IMNCI. Reference materials are available in the library and regularly used by students. A regional team from WHO has evaluated the process and outcomes of the incorporation of the integrated management of new-born and child illness (IMNCI) into the paediatric teaching curriculum at Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, and as per report published by WHO was "Overall, the environment at Liaquat University is very supportive to IMNCI teaching, which has formally endorsed it at high level in the institution."
The Vice Chancellor LUMHS Professor Mashoor Alam Shah expressed that IMNCI (pre-service) education improves student's competencies in managing children in the outpatient settings before graduation; he offered full support/guidance and co-operation for the adoption of this skilled training to the undergraduate medical students of Kabul Medical University in continuation of "Academic linkages and community outreach programme" between Institutions, initiated by the University.
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